Re: switching from CVS to Mercurial

[Thomas Weber]

Am Donnerstag, den 07.02.2008, 06:32 +0200 schrieb Shai Ayal:
> On Feb 6, 2008 12:17 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:

> Shall we remain with the same policy for commit message as in CVS? i.e
> no commit message is necessary but Changelog is essential? It actually
> makes more sense in hg than CVS since the Changelog diff is available
> as part of the changeset

Actually, that policy does not make sense with distributed VCS. The
first line of the commit message appears in web frontends, which gives a
much clearer appearance of changes.

Compare
        http://www.selenic.com/hg/
with 
        http://www.octave.org/hg/octave

Also, it's what you see in graphical repository browser:
        http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ac/Hgk.png

>From personal experience: with a distributed VCS, you commit much more
often.
If you code and see a typo in a related file: fix it, commit it
separately, move along. So, you really, really want commit messages.

        Thoma