From owner-cvs-all Mon Nov 12 5:24:11 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A04C37B417; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 05:24:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a232.otenet.gr [212.205.215.232]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id fACDO1228530; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 15:24:01 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fACDO1901634; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 15:24:01 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 15:24:00 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Nik Clayton Cc: Greg Lehey , Jimmy Olgeni , cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha proc-alpha.sgml Message-ID: <20011112132400.GC714@hades.hell.gr> References: <200111062132.fA6LW2Y04869@freefall.freebsd.org> <20011110095133.F30838@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> <20011112112631.A3318@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011112112631.A3318@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nik Clayton wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 09:51:33AM +0000, Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Tuesday, 6 November 2001 at 13:32:02 -0800, Jimmy Olgeni wrote: > > > olgeni 2001/11/06 13:32:02 PST > > > > > > * it's -> its > > > * bandwith -> bandwidth > > > * website -> web site > > > > Wouldn't it be easier to read "fix typos"? > > Possibly. But now every committer knows that we prefer "hard disk" to > "harddisk". That wouldn't happen if the commit message was less > informative. In fact, this is how I found out what spelling is the preferred one, `standardise' or `standardize'. By grepping logs. Of course, I could have used `cvs diff', but with the information easily visible in the output of `cvs log' I could easily do: % cvs -q log | more and spend a few hours looking at past changes. Lots of fun reading old logs. And having this kind of information in them is very educational too :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message