[swift-evolution] Proposal: Support for commit comments

[Amir Michail]

> On Dec 21, 2015, at 5:56 PM, Greg Parker <gparker at apple.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Dec 21, 2015, at 2:53 PM, Amir Michail via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
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>>> On Dec 21, 2015, at 5:38 PM, Douglas Gregor <dgregor at apple.com> wrote:
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>>>> On Dec 21, 2015, at 11:07 AM, Amir Michail via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Upon a commit, these comments would be automatically removed from the source and combined into a single commit comment.
>>>> 
>>>> In this way, you would not need to remember what changes you are committing in order to make up a commit comment. You just comment the code as you make the changes.
>>>> 
>>>> A special syntax would be used for commit comments so they are never confused with normal comments.
>>>> 
>>>> Note also that in the case of multiple changes being committed at once, these commit comments would give a more accurate mapping of the individual comments to the code changes they refer to.
>>> 
>>> This has nothing to do with Swift.
>> 
>> Aren’t comments part of Swift?
> 
> Comments are, but commits are not. We don't have any way to force source control systems like git or svn to scan our files for special comments.
> 

If it is part of the language standard and is supported by Xcode, then many source control systems/IDEs will support it also as it gives them a competitive advantage.

> 
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> Greg Parker     gparker at apple.com <mailto:gparker at apple.com>     Runtime Wrangler

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