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Emacs SVN mode = good
Wed Jan 13 05:44:38 PST 2010
I've been using the svn mode in emacs. At first, I thought it had a bug: it made me write change comments for each committed file, one at a time.
Then I realized that this bug is a actually a feature. I no longer write "bunch 'o stuff" when I commit changes to dozens of files. Instead, I pause and reflect on why I changed each one (guess what: lots of changes are due to documentation fixes!).
So now I'm wondering about writing a blog reflecting on all this code work. Every day, write about the changes from 30 days ago. This lets me not say stupid things about something that seemed useful n Tuesday, but by Friday I'd undone it all and dumped it in the scrap heap. That way I can write sage wisdom today without having to eat crow tomorrow.
