[plt-dev] One e-mail per commit?

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Mon May 17 09:58:52 EDT 2010

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
>
>
>> Possibly, it makes sense to avoid sending e-mails on merge commits,
>> but that's only a bonus.
>
> I don't think so: eg, Sam's recent merge of a long lived branch could
> have (or might have) been pushed as a single merge commit.

Further, I don't see how it would be useful to try to understand that
merge in terms of 30+ emails, all sent at the same time.  Mike, do you
try to read the commits on the XEmacs and Scheme48 repositories?

> 1. I'll take and record votes for one or the other, so please be
>   explicit whether you want the change, don't, or don't care.  (No
>   need to reply to the list unless there's new content, of course.)

I very much don't want this change.
-- 
sam th
samth at ccs.neu.edu


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