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Date:      Sat, 15 Jun 2002 17:25:10 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Will Andrews <will@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Verbose commit messages (Re: cvs commit: ports/deskutils/kdepim3 Makefile distinfo pkg-plist ports/deskutils/kdepim3/files patch-icallangbind.c patch-parseholiday.y patch-vcc.y patch-vobject.c patch-y_tab.c ports/audio/arts Makefile distinfo ports/audio/kdemultimedia3 Makefile distinfo ...)
Message-ID:  <20020615172509.A4771@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020615235706.GE53809@squall.waterspout.com>; from will@csociety.org on Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 06:57:06PM -0500
References:  <200206151616.g5FGGWZ19372@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020615125759.A97615@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020615235706.GE53809@squall.waterspout.com>

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On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 06:57:06PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 12:57:59PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > Informative commit messages can be great, but please try and remember
> > the repo bloat when you write long commit messages for commits which
> > touch large numbers of files.
> >=20
> > This single commit added close to a megabyte to the ports repo.
>=20
> You're right.  It takes too long to commit the update with the
> individual ports, since there are usually hundreds of files
> updated in each upgrade, not to mention that doing them
> individually loses atomicity.  So perhaps what I'll do next time
> is just keep the first line and point to a changelog on a website.
> And perhaps follow up to the commit message with the contents of
> that changelog.
>=20
> How's that?

That sounds like a good compromise.

Kris

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