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Date:      Fri, 05 Jul 2019 17:38:12 -0700
From:      Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>
To:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
Cc:        Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r505908 - in head/sysutils: . netevent netevent/files
Message-ID:  <201907060038.x660cCYb032750@slippy.cwsent.com>
In-Reply-To: Message from Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> of "Sat, 06 Jul 2019 00:04:04 -0000." <20190706000355.GA19905@lonesome.com>

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In message <20190706000355.GA19905@lonesome.com>, Mark Linimon writes:
> On Sat, Jul 06, 2019 at 01:51:25AM +0200, Jan Beich wrote:
> > Those who bother reading commit logs also read actual diffs.
>
> It's true that I can read a whole diff, but I'd rather not have to scan
> N lines to pick out the 2 lines that matter, to answer "what is this?
> Should I care about it?"
>
> Also it's irritating to pull up the svn history of a port and see that
> the first commit is merely "add port".  Now I have to click on another
> link and wait for that to come up.  svnweb can be slow at times, too.

A copy of or the first paragraph of pkg-descr would suffice. Agreed it 
saves a click. If doing svn log or git log one must stop, open another 
window to look at pkg-descr. A few extra words saves everyone a bit of 
time.


-- 
Cheers,
Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>
FreeBSD UNIX:  <cy@FreeBSD.org>   Web:  http://www.FreeBSD.org

	The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.





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