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Re: Broken bootstrap in r113623


From: Xue Fuqiao
Subject: Re: Broken bootstrap in r113623
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 07:15:17 +0800

On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> Xue, please in the future always run "make info" whenever you make any
> changes in the manual.  Otherwise, the risk of gratuitously breaking
> the build is quite high.
>
> Please also make a point of mentioning _all_ of your changes in
> ChangeLog entries (in this case, the removal of the "Disabling
> Multibyte" node was never mentioned).
>
> Finally, please use meaningful commit messages.  Something like "Doc
> fix" does not have any meaningful information, and thus is useless.
> We use "Doc fix" when making changes to doc strings of Lisp functions,
> but then we always state the name of the function whose doc string was
> fixed, and in any case calling 5 non-trivial changes "Doc fix" is not
> a good idea.  Think about the plight of someone who wants to get a
> quick overview of a series of changes by doing "bzr log -l10 --line".

I see, thanks.

-- 
Best regards, Xue Fuqiao.



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