better and easier commitmessages

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

if you write a debian/changelog entry for every change you do, you can 
use "debcommit" (part of the devscripts package) to very easily create useful 
commit messages. From the debcommmit manpage:

debcommit generates a commit message based on new text in debian/changelog, 
and commits the change to a package’s repository. It must be run in a working 
copy for the package. Supported version control systems are: cvs, git, hg 
(mercurial), svk, svn (subversion), baz, bzr, tla (arch).

So basically, instead of "svn ci -m 'some stupid text'" you do "debcommit" 
(or "debcommit -C"), which I think is easier to type and gives better 
results.

I'm in love with it since I discovered it some months ago.


regards,
	Holger (who just read all commits from the last workshop)
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