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Date:      Fri, 11 May 2018 22:20:55 -0700
From:      Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Cc:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, "Jonathan T. Looney" <jtl@freebsd.org>, Stephen Hurd <shurd@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r333503 - stable/11/sys/net
Message-ID:  <20180512052055.GB8131@bluezbox.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180512100335.B1840@besplex.bde.org>
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Bruce Evans (brde@optusnet.com.au) wrote:
> On Fri, 11 May 2018, Ian Lepore wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2018-05-11 at 19:31 -0400, Jonathan T. Looney wrote:
> >> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 4:40 PM, Stephen Hurd <shurd@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Author: shurd
> >>> Date: Fri May 11 20:40:26 2018
> >>> New Revision: 333503
> >>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/333503
> >>>
> >>> Log:
> >>>   MFC r333329, r333366, r333373
> >>>
> >>>   r333329: Fix off-by-one error requesting tx interrupt
> >>>   r333366: Cleanup queues when iflib_device_register fails
> >>>   r333373: Log iflib_tx_structures_setup failure in function
> >>>
> >> Is this an acceptable style for MFC logs?
> >>
> >> I'm asking because I actually prefer this to reading (or compiling) the
> >> concatenated log messages from several changes. However, I never knew it
> >> was acceptable to summarize like this. If it is, I'd like to know so I can
> >> adopt it for run-of-the-mill MFCs.
> >>
> >> Jonathan
> >
> > This used to be my preferred format, essentially to summarize what's
> > being mfc'd. But then I started using the MFC Tracker tool [*] and it
> > automatically generates a commit message that contains the full text,
> > so I stopped trying to summarize things.
> >
> > [*] https://mfc.kernelnomicon.org/6/
> 
> It was the normal style with cvs (to avoid spamming the repository as
> well as readers).  Howver, one of many worse behaviours in svn is that
> after checking out a branch, svn log only shows history for the branch,
> so it is hard to find the full log messages even if you know that the
> visible ones are only summaries.

Although not a direct functional equivalent of CVS log command 'svn log -g'
shows logs for merged commits too

-- 
gonzo



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