What does “CL” mean in a commit message? What does this mean?

Question

From Angular.js change the log:

... After this CL, ng-trim will no longer affect the input [type = password] and will never trim the password value.

This is one of the commit messages, so presumably this means a patch. What does this mean? Change log?

Answer 1

This means a list of changes.

Create Change List (CL)

Creating a change in git really just creates a branch.

http://www.chromium.org/developers/contributing-code

The code review system uses: https://code.google.com/p/rietveld/

Answer 2

Google seems to be saying. I don’t work at Google, so I can only guess, but I would suggest that it means "changelog", meaning "a small set of commits considered as a unit for merging", like Github PR (pull request). It is displayed here and here (search on the page for "CL created") with the same usage, and it detects all over the place in Angular problems.

If you are more familiar with Github-talk than Google-talk, mentally replace “PR” with “CL”, and I think you will have the right idea. :-)