From owner-cvs-all Sun Aug 13 16:36:44 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from genius.systems.pavilion.net (genesis.tao.org.uk [194.242.131.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2880937B789; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 16:36:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@pavilion.net) Received: by genius.systems.pavilion.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 76B8B9B2A; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 00:36:36 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 00:36:36 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Doug Barton Cc: Warner Losh , Ade Lovett , Jonathan Lemon , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes Message-ID: <20000814003636.A74639@pavilion.net> References: <20000807171632.B514@FreeBSD.org> <200008072049.NAA00374@freefall.freebsd.org> <200008072201.QAA34941@harmony.village.org> <20000807171632.B514@FreeBSD.org> <200008072226.QAA35123@harmony.village.org> <20000808145630.L14108@pavilion.net> <399395C7.6CF57646@gorean.org> <20000812180157.C509@pavilion.net> <3996FF9D.C5497459@gorean.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3996FF9D.C5497459@gorean.org>; from DougB@gorean.org on Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 01:05:49PM -0700 X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 01:05:49PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > I think the better question is, why is it bad? Sure, it adds some volume to > the mail, but it's not the end of the world. Those mega-commits don't > happen very often, so you're really talking about an edge case. > > > I favour the unique commit id idea instead, and teaching cvsweb or > > something about how to use these to determine a set of related > > commits. It would then make sense to add a single link to the email > > message that evokes cvsweb to show the commit set. > > That seems like a lot of work for very little benefit to me. I've had many requests for this the cvsweb links, and no request to leave it out, so consider it on the list. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message