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Date:      Tue, 20 Apr 2021 01:07:40 +0200
From:      Michael Gmelin <grembo@freebsd.org>
To:        Dmitry Sivachenko <demon@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Yuri <yuri@freebsd.org>, ports-committers <ports-committers@freebsd.org>, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: d3ba089a5212 - main - Update to version 2.2.13.
Message-ID:  <0D00C7C3-8460-4CBC-8655-DBF7AB8D97CC@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <A14E4A66-FEB3-4E41-B413-8413D479EF89@FreeBSD.org>

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> On 20. Apr 2021, at 00:24, Dmitry Sivachenko <demon@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 20 Apr 2021, at 01:17, Yuri <yuri@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 4/19/21 3:13 PM, Dmitry Sivachenko wrote:
>>>    Update to version 2.2.13.
>> 
>> 
>> Why didn't you mention in the commit message what port was updated?
>> net/haproxy is one of thousands of ports and having a message like this doesn't help to understand what the change is.
>> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> what do you mean 'what port was updated'?  It is clean from the commit log that it is net/haproxy that was updated, only two files changed:
>   Update to version 2.2.13.
> ---
> net/haproxy/Makefile | 2 +-
> net/haproxy/distinfo | 6 +++---
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> Or may be I am missing something...

The idea is to prefix the first line of the commit with <category>/<name>:, so it’s easier to understand which port was changed when looking at a list of commits.

See here for an example of why this helps:
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/log/

Best,
Michael








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