Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 12:13:26 +0100 From: Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com> To: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pccard pccard.c pcic.c pcic_pci.c pcicvar.h Message-ID: <2340000.1000379606@lobster.originative.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20010913130842.A70762@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> References: <200109130826.f8D8QtY18779@freefall.freebsd.org> <1121080000.1000369966@lobster.originative.co.uk> <20010913033008.A7016@dragon.nuxi.com> <1164990000.1000377601@lobster.originative.co.uk> <20010913035412.B7016@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010913130842.A70762@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de>
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--On Thursday, September 13, 2001 13:08:42 +0200 Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> wrote: > Thus spake David O'Brien (obrien@FreeBSD.org): > >> > >> > <jkh> "Hey Rocky, watch me eject this pccard outta my laptop!" >> > >> > "What, again? That NEVER works!" "This time for sure!" >> > A side note on humour; "tuna fish" is an english language pun whereas I >> > suspect the above quote means nothing to a large percentage of the user >> > base. >> Actually I disagree. The comment is right on as far as what is being >> fixed. The reference to "Rocky" and the sentence style will probably be >> lost as you say. But the message is actually on the mark. Especially if >> you do a `cvs log' and see all the commits over a short amount of time. > > Actually I didn't understand "tune a fish" is a hint to "tuna fish", > before you mentioned it, but tunefs(8) was funny nevertheless. > > I also really don't understand this Rocky stuff. I've never > watched the Rockie movies, if this is meant. I agree with David, > though. Warner could also have done "Oooops" instead, as I > know from other commitlogs from other CVS trees. I was not critising the substantive part of the commit message, which was fine, it was the noise before and after it. Our commit messages are way better than some of the other projects, but they won't stay way better unless we keep up our standards. Paul Richards FreeBSD Services Ltd http://www.freebsd-services.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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