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please make the commit log clean
From: |
shynur . |
Subject: |
please make the commit log clean |
Date: |
Sun, 18 Aug 2024 20:45:32 +0000 |
Hi, Chet.
I'm a beginner with Bash and recently stumbled upon the
Bash code repository (specifically the 'devel' branch).
I noticed that almost every commit includes thousands of
lines of changes.
Out of curiosity, I randomly clicked on one of the commits
(e.g.,
<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/commit/?h=devel&id=772e7e760e8a098e4d8dee21cf11090be4757918>).
I found that the majority of the changes were to documentation,
such as the `doc/bash.0` file, which had 4999 lines modified.
While I'm not very familiar with the process of automatically
generating documentation, I can still infer that the `doc/bash.0`
file is an output produced by processing `doc/bash.info` with
some program.
I believe these output files should be added to `.gitignore`
and generated during the `make` process. Otherwise, they will
severely pollute the commit history, making it much harder for
future maintainers to understand and manage the repository.
--
shynur
- please make the commit log clean,
shynur . <=