XEmacs CVS goes Mercurial

[Mike Kupfer]

>>>>> "MS" == Michael Sperber <sperber at deinprogramm.de> writes:

MS> XEmacs is switching its home for active development from CVS to
MS> Mercurial.

Cool.

MS> This only affects the core of XEmacs for the time being, and only
MS> the trunk of the CVS.  Both the packages and 21.4 development will
MS> continue to live in CVS for the time being.

Any plans for moving the packages?

MS> To facilitate this process, every commit to "xemacs" will trigger an
MS> e-mail to be sent to xemacs-patches at xemacs.org, where it can be
MS> reviewed and discussed.  These automatic e-mails replace the manual
MS> e-mails we have now.  To make sure they fulfill the same purpose,
MS> committers are asked to provide informative ChangeLog entries and
MS> commit messsages.  Commit messages may be identical to the ChangeLog
MS> entry.

By default, "hg log" only shows the first line of each commit message.
Are developers encouraged to write their commit messages so that the
first line is particularly meaningful?  Or should we just get used to
doing "hg log -v" ?

cheers,
mike