[tei-council] SVN commit messages

[Martin Holmes]

This is a hobby-horse of mine, so please forgive me if I've badgered you 
about it before. :-)

This is a selection of commit messages from our SVN repo:

tweaks
make it valid
sigh
try again
another spurt of editing
a few typos
where stuff goes
pure cosmetics
cleaning

along with lots of instances of no message at all.

I'm not singling out anyone in particular here -- these examples come 
from a variety of people, and I've been guilty of this myself -- but 
when I'm coming to edit a file, I use svn log to see the recent history 
and figure out what's been happening with the file. Cryptic commit 
messages are really frustrating. Could we all make a bit more effort to 
provide useful commit messages?

  - Explain in useful detail what you did.
  - Say why you did it.
  - Give the number(s) of SF tickets relating to the change.
  - If more work is needed or the change isn't finished, say so.

Thanks,
Martin

-- 
Martin Holmes
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
(mholmes at uvic.ca)