Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 15:24:00 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@freebsd.org>, Jimmy Olgeni <olgeni@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha proc-alpha.sgml Message-ID: <20011112132400.GC714@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20011112112631.A3318@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> References: <200111062132.fA6LW2Y04869@freefall.freebsd.org> <20011110095133.F30838@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> <20011112112631.A3318@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
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Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 09:51:33AM +0000, Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Tuesday, 6 November 2001 at 13:32:02 -0800, Jimmy Olgeni wrote: > > > olgeni 2001/11/06 13:32:02 PST > > > > > > * it's -> its > > > * bandwith -> bandwidth > > > * website -> web site > > > > Wouldn't it be easier to read "fix typos"? > > Possibly. But now every committer knows that we prefer "hard disk" to > "harddisk". That wouldn't happen if the commit message was less > informative. In fact, this is how I found out what spelling is the preferred one, `standardise' or `standardize'. By grepping logs. Of course, I could have used `cvs diff', but with the information easily visible in the output of `cvs log' I could easily do: % cvs -q log | more and spend a few hours looking at past changes. Lots of fun reading old logs. And having this kind of information in them is very educational too :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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