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Date:      Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:37:24 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
To:        chris@calldei.com
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/mergemaster Makefile mergemaster
Message-ID:  <199911012237.OAA42424@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <19991101161017.G602@holly.calldei.com> from Chris Costello at "Nov 1, 1999 04:10:17 pm"

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> On Mon, Nov 01, 1999, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > Because I desire that committers write consice, complete, and accurate
> > commit messages.
> 
>    I apologize and if you think I should, I will detail the
> implications of even small changes I make.

No appology needed, but I will state more detail is easy to filter...
missing detail is hard to create.  Also it seems I was not the only one
unsure as to if mergemaster or mergemaster.sh was the resulting installed
binary.

>  I had assumed that it
> was self-explanatory seeing "Makefile" in the list of modified
> files.

The assumption of self-explanation is over used, the name of a file
changed does not indicate what the change was.  You could have changed
it a million different ways, 999,999 of them being wrong :-)


-- 
Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25)               rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net


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