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Date:      Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:43:09 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-user@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r189612 - in user/lstewart/alq_varlen_8.x: sys/kern tools/test/alq
Message-ID:  <49B6DEED.4040902@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090310212511.GA53115@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
References:  <200903100751.n2A7p02m050724@svn.freebsd.org> <49B6CF13.9060501@FreeBSD.org> <20090310212511.GA53115@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>

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Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 01:35:31PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>> Lawrence Stewart wrote:
>>> Author: lstewart
>>> Date: Tue Mar 10 07:50:59 2009
>>> New Revision: 189612
>>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/189612
>>>
>>> Log:
>>>   More bug and style fixes.
>> Generally it's preferred not to mix these two types of changes. The
>> preferred course of action is to make the style changes, confirm that
>> the binary is unchanged (e.g., with sha256), then do substantive
>> changes. Makes the revision history a little easier to parse down the
>> road.
> 
> well, this is a private branch after all :)

1. Good habits come from good practice, and what better place to
practice than in a "private" branch?

2. Given that the stuff is in the FreeBSD repository, the presumption
is that it is of some use to the wider FreeBSD community. So IMO
community best practices are a reasonable expectation. Otherwise, why
not just keep it local?

Doug

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