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Date:      Tue, 25 Apr 2017 13:33:38 -0500
From:      Benjamin Kaduk <bjkfbsd@gmail.com>
To:        rgrimes@freebsd.org
Cc:        Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>,  "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r317409 - head/contrib/tcpdump
Message-ID:  <CAJ5_RoAgqE2gBsP1NQMQVLXjmRJC1_d3wihPVsEcmYo9HHknDw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201704251830.v3PIUHdb062645@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <201704251556.v3PFuk5U053547@repo.freebsd.org> <201704251830.v3PIUHdb062645@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>

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On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Rodney W. Grimes <
freebsd@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:

> [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ]
> > Author: glebius
> > Date: Tue Apr 25 15:56:46 2017
> > New Revision: 317409
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/317409
> >
> > Log:
> >   Cherry-pick 5d3c5151c2b885aab36627bafb8539238da27b2d, it fixes use
> after free
>
> Lets not use git hashes as references in commit messages,
> it has very little value for someone reading a log of changes
> looking for something.  There is no promise that it can be
> found later (github can go Poof).
>

On the contrary, a git SHA1 seems like an eminently stable and unique
search parameter!
I agree that a commit log should inline some summary of the change as well
as provide a
link to the external source, but I am not worried that a future reader will
be unable to find
the referenced commit.

-Ben



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