Re: git: fcad8ada9afc - main - Revert "Add myself (cc) as a src commiter."

On Mon, Apr 03, 2023 at 05:32:04PM +1000, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Monday,  3 April 2023 at 14:45:03 +0800, Zhenlei Huang wrote:
> >> On Apr 2, 2023, at 12:27 AM, Cheng Cui <cc@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks for the concern. It was a mistake that placed my name in the
> >> wrong place.  The correct change is in 95940a2d2442.
> >
> > I think this is an impressive start as a committer ;)
> 
> By far not the worst.  My first commit was not quite 25 years ago, on
> 15 September 1998, and it included:
> 
>  *   N src/lkm/vinum/emacs.core
> 
> For those youngsters who don't remember CVS, the N means "new file in
> repo".
> 
> More details at http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-sep1998.php#16
> 
> [quoting the above diary entry]
> 
>   [...]
>   typing the commit message into an Emacs window, the Emacs crashed.

That's why one should always prepare commit message first, then pass
it via -F option.

>   Peter was one of the few people allowed to physically remove anything
>   from the repository, and he did so.

Ah, don't we all miss CVS for that.  Repocopies were also done with this
type of surgery, and that was annoying, but being able to prune those
accidentally committed blobs wins it for me (or rather did back in those
times ;-).

./danfe