[josm-dev] Commit message not empty

[Shaun McDonald]

On 23 Apr 2009, at 20:18, Frederik Ramm wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Dermot McNally wrote:
>> Small|Medium|Large update within x km radius of <lat/long>
>> Update of x nodes, y ways, z relations within n km of <town or city>
>
> [...]
>
>> What do people think?
>
> Almost worthless, I'm sorry to say. Any automatic message can just as
> well be filled in later by some automatism on some server that  
> compiles
> and anlyses changesets. What we're after is the "human" bit that no
> machine can replace!
>

That human bit is a reason for a change. For example where someone has  
put a road in that is on 4 year old Yahoo imagery, however that road  
no longer exists, (let say it has been built over), so you have  
removed it to reflect reality.

This is the kind of thing that is really useful in the changeset  
comments.

Shaun