Re: useful topics and commit messages within git commits on webwml repository
I don’t think you understand the issue.
See, when you are making changes to the git repository, you at some point need to commit those changes and send them to other people. Now, you are doing that just fine: but there is one minor issue.
When you commit something, it asks for a message. Now the message could be anything: however, the way git is meant to be used treats those messages as little titles. That way, if someone is browsing through the history, they can quickly guess what was done by your commit. However, you are apparently entering the message as “commit”.
It’s a bit like titling a file “Essay” or “Document3729”. Yes, it’s valid; but if you are looking through later to find, say, that one file where you wrote down how you fixed the WiFi driver last time it died, you won’t have a great day.
What Carsten was asking was if you could enter a more descriptive message. Even if it was, say, “Korean translation fix” for every change, another developer would be able to guess what it was you changed without having to checkout the commit or know that you are the Korean Translation Coordinator. That makes their job much easier if they are, for instance, looking through the history to find the change that broke a feature they use. If they see “commit”, and no context, they will need to spend a few minutes investigating the commit: and that slows them down.
TL;DR: Entering a description of the change when git prompts you for a message helps your fellow developers out a lot.
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