Amending, in Git, is one of my favourite features: it basically lets you modify your local history ( unpushed ) to correct mistakes. Or, more often, to add the missing file.
Obviously, in SVN there isn’t something like the amend, and we’re forced to double-commit to send an atomic and consistent software ( merged with our last changes ).
I’ve seen lot of devs, in amend situations, committing with messages like:
- repeated last commit
- added a file I forgot on last commit
or leaving the message blank, or, worse, repeating the commit message.
None of these types of messages are significant.
Why?
Repeating commit messages drives other people nuts, while leaving blank messages can be a bad practice others in the team do. Although it’s an ugly practice we need to differentiate.
Explicative messages, suck the the two on the list above, are a waste of time: our last commit message was already describing the whole changes, although we forgot to phisically add/delete files or whatever.
So, SVNers, add a message like amend or amend r:64 to your amends, nothing more!