Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index

  Hi,

On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 01:05:44PM CEST, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

On Mon, 7 May 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote:

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Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

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Just another reason to hate CVS. Because it trained people to do that. If 
it was not for the training by CVS, I would have strongly opposed to the 
introduction of the "-m" switch to commit. It _encourages_ bad commit 
messages.

Well, this really depends on the use-case, size of commit, ...

Okay, so I use "-m" myself sometimes.

  I'm maybe somewhat standing out of the crowd, but I sometimes use -m
for *very* long commit messages - just using separate -m parameters for
paragraphs and writing on; I tend to find it much more natural than
spawning an editor. Only when I find later that I've made an ugly typo
in the middle of 250-characters commandline or I figure out that I
should add some figure to the message, I throw in -e at the end and add
the final touches.

..snip..

Commit messages, BTW, are somewhat of an artform. You cannot imagine how 
slow I am writing them, because they should be helpful not only for the 
reviewer, but also for the casual git-blame user, who wants to find out 
the rationale of a change.

  But I agree that commit messages are somewhat of an artform, and
just finding a good headline can be quite difficult sometime. :-)

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