[swift-evolution] Proposal: Support for commit comments

[karl catigbe]

Pre commit hook. What you want is a pre commit hook.

On Monday, December 21, 2015, Amir Michail via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

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> On Dec 21, 2015, at 5:56 PM, Greg Parker <gparker at apple.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gparker at apple.com');>> wrote:
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> On Dec 21, 2015, at 2:53 PM, Amir Michail via swift-evolution <
> swift-evolution at swift.org
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','swift-evolution at swift.org');>> wrote:
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> On Dec 21, 2015, at 5:38 PM, Douglas Gregor <dgregor at apple.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','swift-evolution at swift.org');>> wrote:
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> Upon a commit, these comments would be automatically removed from the
> source and combined into a single commit comment.
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> 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.
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> A special syntax would be used for commit comments so they are never
> confused with normal comments.
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> 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.
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> This has nothing to do with Swift.
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> Aren’t comments part of Swift?
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> 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.
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> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gparker at apple.com');>     Runtime Wrangler
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