From owner-cvs-all Tue Oct 10 14: 6:44 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from netplex.com.au (adsl-64-163-195-99.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.163.195.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 544AF37B502; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 14:06:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from netplex.com.au (peter@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by netplex.com.au (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9AL6NG23950; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 14:06:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <200010102106.e9AL6NG23950@netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Eivind Eklund Cc: Greg Lehey , Darren Reed , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Commit message attributions (was: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 rc.conf.5 src/etc rc.network src/etc/defaults rc.conf) In-Reply-To: <20001009121554.B74943@ee.follo.net> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 14:06:22 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 12:53:24PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Friday, 6 October 2000 at 14:56:56 +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 05:24:46AM -0700, Darren Reed wrote: > > >> PR: 20202 > > >> Submitted by: Gerhard Sittig > > >> Reviewed by: Darren Reed > > >> Approved by: Darren Reed > > >> Obtained from: Gerhard Sittig > > > > > > FYI: > > > > > > "Reviewed by" and "Approved by" is assumed for the committer himself. > > > > > > "Obtained from" is for other software distributions, not users. > > > > > > The canonical trappings for this commit message would be just 'PR:' and > > > 'Submitted by:'. > > > > > > No big deal, of course. > > > > Yes, but where can we read this? I'm pretty sure this is all oral > > tradition. We should write it down somewhere. > > /home/ncvs/CVSROOT/rcstemplate, which usually will be inserted as a > template when you are prompted for the commit message by cvs. We used to have a detailed explanation in rcstemplate of what to put where, but people still didn't read it and did it the way they wanted anyway. It should still be in the cvs history for the file. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message