[mapguide-internals] PSC: Trac/SVN Pre and Post Commit Hooks

[Jason Birch]

I agree with Traian that plain language (and especially humorous) commit
messages are much more effective than referencing a ticket.  However, I
also think that it's important to associate commits with tickets where
possible so that they're properly linked up in Trac.  I'd prefer to see
this as a not-technically-enforced policy though.

What I would also really like to see is commits against RFCs referencing
those RFCs using Wiki style.  I'm hoping that this would actually link
to the appropriate Wiki page from the Changeset.

Some of the synergy that you get via Trac for release management is
pretty cool if you choose to exploit it.  The GDAL project has been
moving towards this pretty well.

Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: Traian Stanev
Subject: RE: [mapguide-internals] PSC: Trac/SVN Pre and Post Commit
Hooks


I'm against it (surprise!). 

Just use plain language to explain what you are doing in the commit
message so that people know what the commit is about. I think this has a
better chance of being useful than someone checking in a bunch of
commits that all say "ticket #7" in the commit message. And then you go
to the ticket and it has a one line description.