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Date:      Tue, 25 Apr 2017 12:07:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
To:        Benjamin Kaduk <bjkfbsd@gmail.com>
Cc:        rgrimes@freebsd.org, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r317409 - head/contrib/tcpdump
Message-ID:  <201704251907.v3PJ7Mxv062849@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAJ5_RoAgqE2gBsP1NQMQVLXjmRJC1_d3wihPVsEcmYo9HHknDw@mail.gmail.com>

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> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Rodney W. Grimes <
> freebsd@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> 
> > [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ]
> > > Author: glebius
> > > Date: Tue Apr 25 15:56:46 2017
> > > New Revision: 317409
> > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/317409
> > >
> > > Log:
> > >   Cherry-pick 5d3c5151c2b885aab36627bafb8539238da27b2d, it fixes use
> > after free
> >
> > Lets not use git hashes as references in commit messages,
> > it has very little value for someone reading a log of changes
> > looking for something.  There is no promise that it can be
> > found later (github can go Poof).
> >
> 
> On the contrary, a git SHA1 seems like an eminently stable and unique
> search parameter!
> I agree that a commit log should inline some summary of the change as well
> as provide a
> link to the external source, but I am not worried that a future reader will
> be unable to find
> the referenced commit.

There is no administrative policy in place that says github users shall
maintain there history.

I had too many indirections to find this change on github:
commitlog -> google -> wrong article that references this sha1 -> actual commit

I re-iterate lets NOT start to use git hashes in our commit messages.

-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org



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