Re: CVS commits and logs

[Miles Bader]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> I dislike multi-file CVS commits specifically because of the clutter
> of having the entire change log entry in the log of each file.
>
>     And what about multiple _authors_?  Most of my commits are from
>     automatic merging, which more often than not involves multiple authors.
>
> Is this all a matter of Gnus?  We could handle Gnus specially.

Primarily Gnus, yes.

I basically wanted to point out that the guidelines being discussed,
while they definitely make prettier commit logs (I prefer that general
style too), are problematic for some uses.  [The fact that they make
simultaneous commit impossible is also a problem generally of course.]

-miles
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