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Subject: Re: Verbose commit messages (Re: cvs commit: ports/deskutils/kdepim3
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On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> Informative commit messages can be great, but please try and remember
> the repo bloat when you write long commit messages for commits which
> touch large numbers of files.

Also, it is a waste of time to see them over and over when you read the
logs for a subset of the changed file later, and to figure out the part
of the message that actually applies to the files in the subset.

Bruce


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