Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 18:38:33 +0200 From: John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>, David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r397316 - in head/graphics: . pikopixel Message-ID: <55FD8F89.3000007@marino.st> In-Reply-To: <20150919153526.GB94614@FreeBSD.org> References: <201509191058.t8JAwta3045896@repo.freebsd.org> <20150919115554.GB99928@FreeBSD.org> <1207D78B-4C60-4AC4-829B-C51D812370EB@FreeBSD.org> <20150919153526.GB94614@FreeBSD.org>
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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
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