From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Why is it important to learn git? Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:47:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <200907220952.27385.trast@student.ethz.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Thomas Rast , Tim Harper , git@vger.kernel.org To: Sverre Rabbelier X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 22 23:47:24 2009 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 1MTjee-0005Qf-BO for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:47:16 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753930AbZGVVrJ convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:47:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753024AbZGVVrI (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:47:08 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.157]:18659 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752817AbZGVVrH convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:47:07 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e21so147817fga.17 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:47:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:received :x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:date :in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=eRviXT8iZBFzvF8P7Z0KuS26E4WffvOkTDa9x39bC5k=; b=POzTSekI2ju/3lBDbWuqgAemP6CugjzR+nvvxPfLkbk3z5OYCg9TV0tGbccgmebW/f 8Y1ukDFtzQ1RZD82STx2mUW6E3BiZWhfJDFeXomOG7jlCyE/vVBACKscdvm9EczLgpgi U+nKCYyiupFlGcXZNrCFFjtDnqqIWKXY1hRh8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:date :in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=MwbFAQQdQANp+9blHRrUwVUk/IWZLiWfhwoA9MiGrULLnvtHwn6j2/dZNIAlGgF9Vh mcow04HNHVp4gpGxbmh8A+iRNKq9YK+PoX1OzqvOABn5H5z9+uJK2cEoWSwcj4qkn06G AUdoIDysQpppU33rdlt4mDvgjMAVD+PD/oSGM= Received: by 10.86.97.18 with SMTP id u18mr1187105fgb.66.1248299226333; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:47:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (abvd136.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.8.201.136]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 12sm17539542fgg.29.2009.07.22.14.47.04 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:47:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id n6MLl7F2002817; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:47:07 +0200 Received: (from jnareb@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id n6MLl61m002814; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:47:06 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jnareb set sender to jnareb@gmail.com using -f In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Sverre Rabbelier writes: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 07:52, Thomas Rast wro= te: > > =A0Learning to make nice, reviewable, working, one-change-per-revis= ion > > =A0commits. >=20 > I very much agree with those values, but also >=20 > Commit early, commit often =20 I also find commit message convention: "short one-line description, separated by empty line, then more detailed description" to be very useful (git tools assume and expect this convention). It helps keeping changesets / commits small; if you can't write oneline summary of commit, it is probably too large :-) --=20 Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git