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Date:      Wed, 27 Feb 2019 22:59:06 +0100
From:      Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@freebsd.org>
To:        Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>
Cc:        rgrimes@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org,  svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r344570 - head/usr.sbin/sysrc
Message-ID:  <CAD9iB3c%2BvL5vicSP0K8_qLcxrWLwYB5kWLS52q2t%2BGsRW_AOfA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190226225256.GA31931@stack.nl>
References:  <201902260928.x1Q9SBp7098439@repo.freebsd.org> <201902261247.x1QClxsH044906@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> <20190226225256.GA31931@stack.nl>

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On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 at 23:53, Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 04:47:59AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ]
> > > Author: 0mp (ports committer)
> > > Date: Tue Feb 26 09:28:10 2019
> > > New Revision: 344570
> > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/344570
>
> > > Log:
> > >   sysrc.8: Pet igor and mandoc
>
> > This only tells the source of why you changed some,
> > a good commit log entry tells me that, and what it
> > is that you changed.  You normally do not need to
> > name the file your changed in a commit log as the
> > log is attached to the file, sometimes it does make
> > since to mention a file name in a log entry when you
> > are describing the changes to just that file in a
> > commit that includes many files.
>
> > A better log might of been:
> >   Pet igor and mandoc.  Remove unneeded .Li, use .Fx as needed,
> >   escape hard stop, and sort cross references.
>

Alright! Thank you for a review ;) I'll be more precise
next time.

Naming the affected area, file or directory can be useful to make the
> commit message understandable outside of its file's context without
> needing to look at the diff or list of changed files. Even better, there
> is a convention of making the first line of the commit message a
> summary. When following this convention, displaying just the first line
> of each commit's message allows a good overview of recent changes in the
> whole tree.
>

I like it as well.



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