[gameprogrammer] Re: 1 and half year project

On Wednesday 27 May 2009 06:24:02 Alan Wolfe wrote:
> oh and last one (i promise!)
>
> if you can, make it so your SVN server emails your mailing list whenever
> someone does a checkin and have it include the user who did the checkin,
> their checkin notes, and the files they modified.
>
> this has been INVALUABLE for keeping everyone on the same page for whats
> being worked on / what's been fixed / new features / etc.
>
> oh and make sure your programmers never check in unstable code - it really
> pisses off your artists hahah

And write a proper pre-commit hook for not allowing bogus source changes etc.
For example coding style changes (indentation) really destroy diffs.
Simple pre-commit hook prevents commits if the commit contains code that the 
styler would want to alter. So the failing commit should just tell the 
commiter to run the styler before retrying to commit. This is simple, easy and 
effective. And besides this way everybody can use what ever style they want 
while they are working with the code.

Also one can reguire at least 20 character long log messages, disallow build 
paths, set svn properties for certain file types etc.



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