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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>, Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dates in Commits and other issues of style (Re: [RFC 2/5] Pretty Print: show tz when using DATE_LOCAL)
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 03:45:03 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3bozuwqyz.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vhb9nkmo1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Enforcing consistency is one of the important tasks the maintainers do in
> their projects.  Besides ensuring that the intent of the change each patch
> brings to the codebase is good, that the log entry describes the change in
> a useful way for future readers, and that the patch correctly implements
> the described change, we also need to make sure that the resulting code
> matches the style of the surrounding code, and the style, structure and
> tone the log messages are delivered in a consistent voice.  Otherwise it
> would quickly get very tiring when you have to dig into the history of the
> codebase.  The code and the history are read a lot more often than are
> written. [...]

This information should be put e.g. in SubmittingPatches, or
CodingGuidelines, or MaintNotes, isn't it?

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-25 10:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-20  2:53 [RFC 0/5] Date Mode: Add --time-zone; deprecate --date=local Michael Witten
2011-04-20  2:45 ` [RFC 1/5] Light refactoring of date infrastructure Michael Witten
2011-04-20  2:45 ` [RFC 2/5] Pretty Print: show tz when using DATE_LOCAL Michael Witten
2011-04-21 22:34   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-22 14:08     ` Dates in Commits and other issues of style (Re: [RFC 2/5] Pretty Print: show tz when using DATE_LOCAL) Michael Witten
2011-04-25  1:26       ` Miles Bader
2011-04-25  3:57         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-25 10:45           ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2011-04-25 18:29             ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-22 14:36     ` [RFC 2/5] Pretty Print: show tz when using DATE_LOCAL Michael Witten
2011-04-22 15:06       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-20  2:45 ` [RFC 3/5] Date Mode: Implementation Michael Witten
2011-04-21 22:44   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-20  2:45 ` [RFC 4/5] Date Mode: Documentation Michael Witten
2011-04-20  2:45 ` [RFC 5/5] Date Mode: Tests Michael Witten
2011-04-21 22:44   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-23  3:42     ` Michael Witten
2011-04-23  5:06       ` Michael Witten
2011-04-23  3:45     ` Time zone option name (Re: [RFC 5/5] Date Mode: Tests) Michael Witten
2011-04-23  5:27       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-23  3:59   ` [RFC 5/5] Date Mode: Tests Michael Witten
2011-04-20  6:43 ` [RFC 0/5] Date Mode: Add --time-zone; deprecate --date=local Jeff King
2011-04-20 14:21   ` Michael Witten
2011-04-21  1:50     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-21  2:14       ` Michael Witten
2011-04-21  3:57         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-21  4:09           ` Michael Witten
2011-04-20 14:22   ` Michael Witten
2011-04-20 14:22   ` Michael Witten
2011-04-20 14:23   ` Michael Witten
2011-04-21  0:07     ` Tabs and spaces (Re: [RFC 0/5] Date Mode: Add --time-zone; deprecate --date=local) Jonathan Nieder
2011-04-21  1:51       ` Tabs and spaces Michael Witten
2011-04-21  2:18         ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-04-21  3:15           ` Michael Witten
2011-04-21  3:25             ` Thiago Farina
2011-04-21 10:46               ` Alex Riesen
2011-04-21 12:57                 ` Michael Witten

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