Added in practice of prefixing comments in CVS commits

git-svn-id: https://nagiosplug.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nagiosplug/nagiosplug/trunk@590 f882894a-f735-0410-b71e-b25c423dba1c

diff --git a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
index 3edca6b88af4ed809b3508cc75780a43c0af3fe2..d336ff13a5ed7ceee0f7d5e2fa8f30be07d64923 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
+++ b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
@@ -499,6 +499,15 @@
        <para>You should use /* */ for comments and not // as some compilers
        do not handle the latter form</para>
        </section>
+
+       <section><title>CVS comments</title>
+       <para>When adding CVS comments at commit time, you can use the following prefixes:
+       <unorderedlist>
+         <listitem>"-" for a comment that can be removed from the Changelog</listitem>
+         <listitem>"*" for an important amendment to be included into a features list
+       </unorderedlist>
+       </para>
+       </section>
 </section>
 
 <section id="SubmittingChanges"><title>New submissions and patches</title>