From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: How it was at GitTogether'08 ? Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:35:03 -0800 Message-ID: <7vy6zqx7y0.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <200811080254.53202.jnareb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Nov 11 22:36:57 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L00uu-0004wp-7a for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:36:56 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750933AbYKKVfc (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:35:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751384AbYKKVfc (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:35:32 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:64801 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750873AbYKKVfb (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:35:31 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 662CF7CFFB; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:35:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1AD1F7CFF7; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:35:10 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <200811080254.53202.jnareb@gmail.com> (Jakub Narebski's message of "Sat, 8 Nov 2008 02:54:52 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: A92EA9C0-B038-11DD-88C0-9CEDC82D7133-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jakub Narebski writes: > * David Brown: Life with Git > http://www.davidb.org/git/git-corp.pdf I really enjoyed this talk, which was in a weird sense very encouraging. By the way, one thing David talked about that is not in the PDF slides but I found quite good to stress was the importance of good commit messages. "Write in present tense, it will read much nicer and you'll appreciate it after reading hundreds of them". I'd actually say "imperative mood" instead of "present tense" (but they look almost always the same in English), but in any case, it really gets on my nerve to read commit message that talks things in past tense and I often end up rewriting other people's commit log messages.