From owner-cvs-all Mon Nov 1 14:37:51 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15E6D154E9 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:37:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA42424; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:37:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199911012237.OAA42424@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/mergemaster Makefile mergemaster In-Reply-To: <19991101161017.G602@holly.calldei.com> from Chris Costello at "Nov 1, 1999 04:10:17 pm" To: chris@calldei.com Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:37:24 -0800 (PST) Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message