#commit messages

[insidehtml5]

RomuloOliveira/commit-messages-guide

A guide to understand the importance of commit messages and how to write them well - RomuloOliveira/commit-messages-guide

[awwwralia]

“fixing hash space styles” sounds fun but it isn’t

[takua108-blog]

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unused “title scream” for Game School Simulator 2015

it sounds like crap intentionally — the sample rate is low to match the way the games I grew up with sounded (NBA JAM‘s “oh my! he’s on fire!” on the Genesis, SimCity 2000′s “reticulating splines” on the PC, etc.)

I wanted to have each person on the team do one, and have the game play a random one each time you return to the title screen. I can’t remember why we didn’t do it — but again, we weren’t, uh, altogether thinking straight by the end of that semester:

anyways I’m only bringing this up because I googled the game to find the DigiPen download page for it, and I saw it posted on warez and torrent sites, which amuses me to no end.

[gitwank]

Please get me away from commit messages I am not well

[committerary-criticism]

TIMTOWDI!!! Perl for you.

github.com/gekken/FizzBuzz-1/commit/7e9df2fa

The warrior cry of a practitioner of the first Post-Modern Programming Language begins this elemental piece. The quad-exclamation point usage drives home the feeling of excitement and wonder of this gift, "Perl for you."

[committerary-criticism]

Adding missing require

github.com/rails/rails/commit/02d36684

Three simple words, at once cryptic and revealing. An ongoing tense lends an air of a continuing process unfinished. Questions become apparent upon reflection, "How could it be missing if it was require?", "Whose need does adding it serve?"

[committerary-criticism]

KAFKA-1008 Unmap offset indexes before resizing.

--github.com/apache/kafka/commit/6273696f

The imperative gives this message a strong, forceful feeling. "Unmap!" it says to the world, with the optimism only a bug fixing patch can illicit. "Why?" A reader may wonder, though a simple reference to the JIRA is implicit in the messages beginning.

[committerary-criticism]

Bug 554955: Give blocks and call objects unique shapes when they have parents that may be extended with new bindings. r=jorendorff The comments for js::Bindings::extensibleParents explain why this is necessary. AssertValidPropertyCacheHit should have been catching this bug, but for reasons I don't understand, it is restricted from checking this case. This patch extends it to assert when the bug is detected. I've gathered the infallible parts of the initialization for Call objects and cloned block objects into their own functions.

-- http://hg.mozilla.org/tracemonkey/rev/297b1312f534

This work speaks of infallibility, bringing with it the unasked question of whether any mortal artifact can indeed possess such quality. Its use of technical vocabulary specific to the language of the project at once both clarifies and obfuscates its point.