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Subject: Re: svn commit: r397316 - in head/graphics: . pikopixel
To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>, David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>
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From: John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st>
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On 9/19/2015 5:35 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 04:24:36PM +0100, David Chisnall wrote:
>> On 19 Sep 2015, at 12:55, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>> Not to pick on David in particular, but I've started to notice these
>>> one-line "port foobar added" commits with not a single bit of
>>> explanation what is that thing.  Please add a few words, e.g. an
>>> excerpt from pkg-descr or COMMENT.
>>
>> Given that the commit include the *entire* contents of pkg-descr and
>> COMMENT, wouldn't such a thing be somewhat redundant?
> 
> With respect, no.  Commit *mail* does include it; third-party aggregators
> like FreshPorts or some RSS feed would typically only quote commit log.
> 
> It really helps to attract attention; maybe that's something I've been
> looking for some time, but scarce commit log would just not trigger it.

+1
Please don't consider the email I get in my inbox connected to the
actual commit message at all.  Commit message should stand alone,
without the help of the email (which is why messages should as "- update
to 1.3.1" are so terrible, there's no context whatever when only viewing
svn log)

John