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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> >>Bruce, people would appreciate it if you made some effort to ensure
> >>that commit messages describe the main purposes of the patch, rather
> >>than being just the verbatim text of the last message in the thread.
> >>The above log message is not merely overly verbose, but completely
> >>useless. One might guess that the change had something to do with
> >>Kerberos, but what?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >First I am hearing a complaint. I will try to clean them up.
> >
> >
> >
>
> Well, not everyone is as assertive as Tom :-)
>
> One other thing: it's important that the first words in your commit
> mesage summarise the contents of the commit, because that's what gets
> put in the subject line of the committers email message. Recent examples
> can be seen here:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2006-03/index.php
>
> I don't read every committers message, and the subject lines can help me
> filter them intelligently.
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
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