OK, I’m not sure how much of a best practice this is, but at least it keeps the folks reading your commits via RSS amused, and maybe it will promote more code review. Here are a couple recent examples from the FDO timeline:
In this submission, a fix for the patch we add to the SQL engine. One character is the difference between working code and epic fail…
This submission switches the provider to compile against SQLite 3.6.2. Apart from making universe collapse imminent, this comes with a nice performance boost of up to 2x for feature reads.
-J
1Mark Ireland on Sep 12, 2008 at 9:24 am:
See, developers are real people too!
Here’s some recent FME commit messages that (unfortunately) I felt I had to edit before going into the What’s New file….
- Improved error logging somewhat
- Consistent syntax is more professional than not, for files we ship.
- Some tidying up in preparation for the coming storm.
- FME XML: The ongoing weekend spa treatment.
- FME XML: A refreshing, exfoliating code cleanse.
- 3D geometry: Efficientified (efficiencified?) a little.