svn commit: r272752 - releng/10.1/sys/kern

Garrett Cooper yaneurabeya at gmail.com
Thu Oct 9 19:36:43 UTC 2014


> On Oct 9, 2014, at 11:32, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 9 October 2014 12:43,  <dteske at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I believe I have observed waxing and waning use of
>> these acronyms, and your recent poll shows a current
>> waning trend; however I wish more commits would:
>> 
>> a. describe the individual action in the message rather
>> than the over-arching, higer-level action
>> b. Use these acronyms more
> 
> I think it's silly to have to manually specify metadata in a commit
> message which is already perfectly captured by the tool itself.  The
> manually-entered metadata is not 100% reliable across the projects
> history anyway.
> 
> That said, I'd be happy to help review a proposed patch to the
> committer's handbook or Subversion primer that documents these terms
> and presents examples of their use.

+1. Seems like a lot of drama over pedanticisms.

Let me dig up the "MFC" script I have when I get home -- it automates the entire process.

Thanks!


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