[MITgcm-devel] cvs log message

[Ed Hill]

On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 15:31, Jean-Michel Campin wrote:
> 
> Can I suggest that when a modification is fixing something
> the check-in message explicitly mentions it ?
> 
> I had a hard time recently to get a version that 
> compiles nicely (see for instance the recent "testing"
> on myrinet cluster) and clear log-messages can help
> to figure out what the fixes are.


Yes!

Since I'm getting asked to help find/fix these issues (only to discover
that they were sloppy commits fixed a few hours later) I want to second
JMC's suggestion.  And add another:

== PLEASE == take the time (its only a few minutes) to run testreport on
a even a few (2 or 3) of the test cases before checking in your
changes.  Your few minutes of attention to detail can save others hours
of pointless debugging.  We're all going to make the occasional mistake,
but recently there have been some commits that obviously received no
testing at all.

And if anyone is dissatisfied with testreport or would like help with
it, I'll be happy to improve it and/or answer questions.

Ed

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