[Devel] CVS commit messages

[Tom Kacvinsky]

Hi all, in particular those who have CVS commit access:

I see a LOT of cvs commit messages that look like this:

revision 1.34
date: 2001/08/30 07:59:28;  author: XXXXX;  state: Exp;  lines: +9 -2
YYYY bufixes:

  - reallocation bug in T1_Table_Add
  - increased accuracy of units per EM computation in T1 fonts
  - support "+" as valid font name character (used in embedded fonts)
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That message was for psobjs.c.  The problem is that which one of those messages
actually pertains to psobjs.c?  Which functions?  Etc, etc...

I think that perhaps we ough to start setting up some kind of commit message
guidelines. much like the AFPL Ghostscript folks have.  The reason why I am
after this is that it becomes difficult to tell which files are actually
modified with each commit, especially when the same commit message is used for
many different files.

NOTE: I am sometimes guilty of this myself, so I am chastising myself, too. ;)

Tom