Re: CVS comment

Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 01:34:20AM +0200, Gaetano Mendola wrote:
>
>>Alvaro Herrera wrote:
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>>>Yeah. I included your tab-complete patch in the patch I sent to
>>>pgsql-patches, which later Tom reworked and applied. His CVS comment
>>>didn't mention the tab completion change. This isn't surprising at all,
>>>as minor changes go uncommented sometimes when they are surrounded by
>>>bigger changes (like the large object work).
>>
>>Understood. Why not comment each file separately too much work with CVS?
>
>
> People just doesn't feel it's important ... other projects have strict
> guidelines regarding CVS commit message formatting, but what I have seen
> is in most cases useless noise. Anyone can see the real diffs when
> there's need.
>
>
>>I do not have experience with CVS ( at work I user Clearcase ) and for my
>>personal purpose I use subversion ( any plans to migrate the CVS repository
>>to subversion or even bitkeeper ? ).
>
>
> Subversion and arch have been mentioned, but so far there is no
> compelling reason to change. It'd take convincing at least a couple of
> core hackers to get the ball rolling ...

Well, I think having seen what's happening at the 8.0 relase I think that
committers are too overloaded and someone else have to be "promoted" to be
a committers, and I believe that having betters tools can improve the process
too.

Regards
Gaetano Mendola