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Date:      Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:07:49 -0500
From:      Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r313878 - head/sys/kern
Message-ID:  <7cd90b98-8749-a775-b5f2-3961e59bf5ed@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <56ca9623-dc6f-41fc-ba81-e7486a4ba8e3@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201702171540.v1HFeOAs074991@repo.freebsd.org> <e7d7c961-ec3b-22bc-445e-abe56e421e5c@FreeBSD.org> <7da9caa5-d938-d2d0-1228-0e8897dc5632@FreeBSD.org> <56ca9623-dc6f-41fc-ba81-e7486a4ba8e3@FreeBSD.org>

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On 2/21/2017 2:11 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> On 21/02/2017 02:42, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
>> FWIW,
>>
>>
>> On 2/20/2017 7:24 PM, Bryan Drewery wrote:
>>> On 2/17/2017 7:40 AM, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
>>>> Author: mjg
>>>> Date: Fri Feb 17 15:40:24 2017
>>>> New Revision: 313878
>>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/313878
>>>>
>>>> Log:
>>>>     mtx: get rid of file/line args from slow paths if they are unused
>>>>        This denotes changes which went in by accident in r313877.
>>> I really wish people would just revert their changes and recommit them
>>> properly.  The 'svn blame' on the code in r313877 will never show the
>>> commit message here (r313878).  So a person would only find this
>>> explanation if they read 'svn log' on the file, which in the case of
>>> sys/kern/kern_mutex.c there are 273 commits for.  Are we expected to
>>> read 'svn log' (in the future) for all changes in the hopes that a later
>>> commit happens to mention it?
>>>
>>> As someone who so often is 'svn blame'ing code to understand it better
>>> and to track regressions, commits like this that explain other commits
>>> might as well have never been done.
>> As I mentioned in another thread, other svn configurations (ASF, for example)
>> permit editing the log message:
>>
>> http://help.collab.net/index.jsp?topic=/faq/changelog.html
> How well do various svn exporters handle that?
> Specifically, svn-> git ?
>

Good point: it doesn't.

The change gets ignored but it doesn't break the converter. At least not 
immediately, the github converter in AOO breaks frequently but it is 
probably unrelated.

Pedro.


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