[lcdproc] Now that I have CVS...

David Douthitt n9ubh@callsign.net
Fri, 21 Sep 2001 17:12:51 -0400


wwf@splatwerks.org wrote:
> 
> --- ssrat@mailbag.com wrote ---
> > I noticed that hardly any of my changes have yet made it to CVS.  Should
> > I make my less dramatic changes directly to CVS?
> 
> As I said a couple days ago, I was holding off getting your patches
> committed to CVS because you're still aggressively making changes.
> 
> This is a good thing, but it's usually better for the coder to commit
> those changes directly ... feel free to commit your changes to CVS!

Done.

> As has been previously noted, it's best if you make one CVS commit per
> change, but that's not always feasible, so go at whatever pace suits you
> best.

This will happen in the future, especially as I get more comfortable
with CVS.

> Just make sure to list every change made in the CVS comment, not
> just "changed a buncha stuff" (I'm guilty of doing this, and believe me,
> it really messes up one's head later when one tries to figure out "what
> was I doing?!?!")

Actually, I'm pretty good at this.  I will be focusing on documentation
also; the man pages were one of the first things I attacked...  look at
docs/LCDd.8 ...


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