[Users] Einstein Toolkit Meeting Minutes

[Bruno Coutinho Mundim]

On 07/17/2014 04:35 PM, Barry Wardell wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Frank Loeffler <knarf at cct.lsu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> We could provide one. We cannot enforce people installing it.
>>
>>> and on top of that set up the server to reject unformatted messages?
>>
>> That is probably the better option. Although I would only see it as help
>> to "not forget about it", not an enforcement really (although
>> technically it is the same). We cannot disallow anything else than thorn
>> names before the ":" (we might have commit touching multiple thorns), so
>> we cannot technically prevent something like "somewhere: changed
>> something". But we don't need to technically enforce everything anyway.
> 
> 
> This is a good point. While it seems like a good general guideline to have
> the thorn name as a prefix in any commit message, I'm not convinced it is a
> good idea to strictly enforce it. For example, what about commits that
> modify several thorns at once?
> 

Then we could prefix with "Arrangement:". In any case I don't have
strong feelings about it. It was just a suggestion to make the commit
messages neater and motivate people to apply localized, atomic commits
instead.

Cheers,
Bruno.

> Carpet has a policy like this; in general commit messages are prefixed by
> the thorn name, but occasionally there will be a message which changes many
> thorns at once and doesn't adhere to this convention.
>