[FFmpeg-cvslog] r11225 - trunk/libavformat/avformat.h

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 07:24:30AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> 
> Does a pre-commit check script also check the commit message?

It can check the commit message.  Right now it only checks that the
commit message is non-empty.

> (I'm kind of of the opinion that this is not something which is properly
> the domain of automated checking to begin with, but I don't have good
> arguments to support it right now.)

I'm also a bit queasy about this, but maybe I should not.

A problem is that English has a low Hamming distance between words, i.e.
you can easily transform one word into another with a typo.  This is
hard to discern in a simple script.

Diego