Re: [gentoo-dev] Proper commit messages

[Markus Rothe]

Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> If you're the sort that writes good ChangeLog messages anyway, there's
> nothing wrong with reusing them as the commit message. If you have a
> really really good reason for not using a ChangeLog message, or if you
> haven't yet written a shell alias for reusing ChangeLog messages for
> commits, you still need to come up with something for the commit
> message.

Personaly I find it a little bit annoying to write changes twise. One
time in Changelog and one time in --commitmsg. How about using the
commitmsg for Changelog as default, but if a Changelog entry already
exists, then write nothing to Changelog.

Regards,

Markus Rothe