git: d3ba089a5212 - main - Update to version 2.2.13.

Michael Gmelin grembo at freebsd.org
Mon Apr 19 23:07:52 UTC 2021



> On 20. Apr 2021, at 00:24, Dmitry Sivachenko <demon at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 20 Apr 2021, at 01:17, Yuri <yuri at 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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