[Insight-developers] New commit type: "DOC" for documentation

[Niels Dekker]

Last Saturday, Bill Lorensen has added a new CVS commit type, "DOC", to 
the exisiting list of commit types ("ENH", "BUG", "STYLE", "COMP", 
"PERF").  According to a request of mine: 
http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=7240  Thanks, Bill!

My idea is to use "DOC" only for commits that are strictly limited to 
documentation (typically explanatory comments, ignored by the compiler). 
While a STYLE commit might accidentally cause a (minor) change of 
behavior (you know, bad things happen), a true DOC commit can't possibly 
do so, because it doesn't change anything to the programming logic. So 
when looking for the introduction of a bug or other behavioral change in 
CVS history, commits that are labeled "DOC" should be ignorable.

I have only committed very little to ITK so far, so I just hope you all 
like the intention behind "DOC".

Kind regards, Niels
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Niels Dekker
http://www.xs4all.nl/~nd/dekkerware
Scientific programmer at LKEB, Leiden University Medical Center