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Date:      Tue, 18 Apr 2017 12:16:16 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To:        Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, Joseph Mingrone <jrm@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r438739 - head/editors/emacs-devel
Message-ID:  <1492539376.96207.31.camel@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <9c424b79-d270-6d5f-c625-3de54e721888@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201704171817.v3HIHrKH039517@repo.freebsd.org> <9c424b79-d270-6d5f-c625-3de54e721888@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tue, 2017-04-18 at 18:30 +0200, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> Le 17/04/2017 à 20:17, Joseph Mingrone a écrit :
> > 
> >   Also add MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE=yes.
> >   
> This bit of the commit message is useless.  The fact that you added
> MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE can be seen clearly in the commit diff below.  What
> cannot be seen and is now lost is why you are adding it.
> Does it have problems ordering targets ? Does it try to use a file
> before it is generated... ?
> People regularly go and try to fix these kind of things. If you do not
> explain they why, it is lost, and they have no idea where to begin their
> search.

The info doesn't have to be lost forever, it's not at all hard to
revert the change then re-commit with the proper message.

-- Ian



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