[Python-Dev] Commit changelog: issue number and merges

[Benjamin Peterson]

2011/5/9 R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com>:
> On Mon, 09 May 2011 09:08:53 -0500, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
>> I thought the whole point of merging was that you brought a changeset
>> from one branch to another. This why I just write "merge" because
>> otherwise you're technically duplicating information that is pulled
>> onto the branch by merging.
>
> No it isn't.  The commit message isn't pulled into the new branch.
>
>> It seems like something that should be solved by tools like a display
>> visual graph indicating what is merged. (like Bazaar)
>
> You'd need some extension to hg log that would show the original commit
> message for the first changeset in the merge line in order to "fix"
> this.  I doubt that is going to happen.

*cough* http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/GraphlogExtension

>
> Note that saying just 'merge' makes perfect sense when you are pulling
> in a whole group of changesets in order to synchronize two branches.
> But if you are applying a single changeset to multiple branches,
> as we often do in our workflow, then I think duplicating the commit
> message is (1) easy to do and (2) very helpful when looking at
> hg log output.

What's the difference between pulling multiple changesets in and one then?


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Regards,
Benjamin