Re: controlling/checking comments in commits

[Sinan Kalkan]

Jim Hyslop wrote:
> Or typing 'asdfasdf' or 'qwertyiop' or '123' or 'blah' or 'changes' or
> 'latest' or...
>
> IOW, it's not worth it.
>
> > > > 2- to force getting separate comments for each file that become
> > > > committed.
>
> Yikes!! Don't do it. Comments should reflect the high-level overview of
> what was done, not nitty-gritty details of what precise changes were
> made to each file (use `cvs diff` for that!). I can't count the number
> of times I have committed dozens of files at once, all because of one
> conceptual change to the source.

I agree that things will become more difficult with individual comments;
however, if the changes made to the files are independent of each other,
comments will not make sense. In any way, the committer can specify the
changes per file in a single comment file but I was interested in forcing
that.