From owner-cvs-all Sat Jun 15 17:25:40 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-56.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 914D537B408; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 17:25:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9B43666D51; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 17:25:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 17:25:10 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Kris Kennaway , Will Andrews , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Verbose commit messages (Re: cvs commit: ports/deskutils/kdepim3 Makefile distinfo pkg-plist ports/deskutils/kdepim3/files patch-icallangbind.c patch-parseholiday.y patch-vcc.y patch-vobject.c patch-y_tab.c ports/audio/arts Makefile distinfo ports/audio/kdemultimedia3 Makefile distinfo ...) Message-ID: <20020615172509.A4771@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200206151616.g5FGGWZ19372@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020615125759.A97615@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020615235706.GE53809@squall.waterspout.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020615235706.GE53809@squall.waterspout.com>; from will@csociety.org on Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 06:57:06PM -0500 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 --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 06:57:06PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 12:57:59PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Informative commit messages can be great, but please try and remember > > the repo bloat when you write long commit messages for commits which > > touch large numbers of files. > >=20 > > This single commit added close to a megabyte to the ports repo. >=20 > You're right. It takes too long to commit the update with the > individual ports, since there are usually hundreds of files > updated in each upgrade, not to mention that doing them > individually loses atomicity. So perhaps what I'll do next time > is just keep the first line and point to a changelog on a website. > And perhaps follow up to the commit message with the contents of > that changelog. >=20 > How's that? That sounds like a good compromise. Kris --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9C9rlWry0BWjoQKURAkggAJsH0NTU+jL98llhiy5maDKAfNVLGwCeLRqh 7F3/jm/NxZqa+xAe+TiuUlg= =vqsj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message