Implied commit messages from merge proposals

Posted by Monty Taylor on August 10, 2010 at 09:20 AM

I just made a patch to the OpenStack tarmac instance which was merged back into upstream trunk. There is now an option (which we are using) which removes the requirement for a separate commit message to be present on the merge proposal before an approved proposal can be merged. It will still use an explicit commit message if it's there, but if it's not, it will happily use your merge proposal description as a commit message.

I do implore you though - if you're the type of person who likes to write 10 page merge proposal descriptions, please also add a short commit message.

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  1. [1]   http://topsy.com/inaugust.com/post/85?utm_source=pingback&utm_campaign=L2
    August 10, 2010 at 10:41 AM

  2. [2]   Joshua McKenty
    August 20, 2010 at 09:40 AM

    Thank you! Is the Hudson setup for pylint on launchpad somewhere? I've been so inspired by it, I wanted to use it on another project.
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