From: Intransition <transfire@...>
Date: 2011-06-15T02:26:40+09:00
Subject: Re: commit message conventions



On Jun 13, 12:37 pm, Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackr...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Intransition <transf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Often a commit has no associated issue. Moreover that information is
> > usually off on a sever somewhere. I use a tool to produce a nice
> > readable history file  --which is the main reason I add a category, so
> > it can present only the things that really need to be listed in that
> > file.
>
> Create a topic branch, commit, merge back into your master, parse
> history for topic branches.

The "parse history" could bare more explanation.

(BTW, your advice on using a, e.g. GPL3.txt instead COPYING.txt proved
a good approach, thanks.)