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Date:      Tue, 2 Jul 2019 13:05:40 +0200
From:      Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r505641 - head/x11-toolkits/libXt
Message-ID:  <7085d1a0-c345-f879-6804-d3dde298ab17@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20190702105011.GC59302@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201907012119.x61LJVsX011853@repo.freebsd.org> <20190702102105.GA59302@FreeBSD.org> <358d47f5-cfa1-09df-a8bb-fbd75b7f8778@freebsd.org> <20190702105011.GC59302@FreeBSD.org>

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On 2019-07-02 12:50, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 12:31:21PM +0200, Niclas Zeising wrote:
>> On 2019-07-02 12:21, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 09:19:31PM +0000, Niclas Zeising wrote:
>>>> New Revision: 505641
>>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/505641
>>>>
>>>> Log:
>>>>     x11-toolkits/libXt: Update to 1.2.0
>>>>     
>>>>     Update x11-toolkits/libXt to 1.2.0
>>>
>>> I couldn't help to notice that in many of your recent logs first two
>>> sentences repeat each other, which is quite annoying to read (I trip
>>> on the unexpected second occurrence of the same data, generate the
>>> exception, and have to reread entire log again).  Is there a reason
>>> behind this, or it's some broken editor macro misbehaves?
>>
>> In general, the first line is a short summary, it shows up in for
>> instance github as a summary of changes, and makes it possible to get
>> an overview of many commits quickly.  Afterwards, a more detailed
>> explanation of the commit follows.
> 
> Oh, so basically, if the log is in "one line header\n\n<body>" format, the
> "real" log is <body>.  Not sure if it's worth writing a procmail rule, but
> I'll try to remember how to read these git-friendly(?) logs properly.

Yes.  I'm not sure if it's a git thing, or a github thing that other git 
utilities have mimicked.  Looking at the git manual, it's mentioned 
there https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit#_discussion (in case you want 
the background).

I'll try to come up with something better in the cases the body part is 
mostly empty.

Regards
-- 
Niclas Zeising



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