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Date:      Wed, 26 Jan 2022 04:36:39 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
To:        Yuri <yuri@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 9204a735d9a8 - main - net/storj: update Storj programs to version 1.47.3.
Message-ID:  <YfDP19WqkQ6Qp4/B@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <c580cfc2-a8eb-7420-f061-f0c00fe601f4@tsoft.com>
References:  <202201251917.20PJHN0w064032@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <c580cfc2-a8eb-7420-f061-f0c00fe601f4@tsoft.com>

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On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 11:31:24AM -0800, Yuri wrote:
> On 1/25/22 11:17, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> >      net/storj: update Storj programs to version 1.47.3.
> 
> * 'Storj' - port name repeated

Only because I'm forced to prepend stupid "cat/port" patch which I strip
locally when browsing commits: this information is redundant as it can be
inferred from the commit itself.

> * 'programs' - irrelevant info for the update. People who know it would
> know that these are programs.
> 
> * 'version' - redundant, because updates are virtually always to versions.

Fair, but IMHO not enough to avoid this nice verbosity of natural language
flow. :)

> In the ML browser your subject got truncated and one essential part
> isn't immediately displayed as a result of this redundancy:
> 
> https://people.freebsd.org/~yuri/redundant-commit-message-information.png

Your screenshot actually shows that the bug is not the commit subject,
which is limited by some ~70 characters and mine do no violate that, but
the From (Author) field needlessly taking too much space.

./danfe



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