Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 13:15:23 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: Doug@gorean.org (Doug Barton) Cc: mjacob@feral.com (Matthew Jacob), imp@village.org (Warner Losh), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/isp isp.c Message-ID: <200006272015.NAA93048@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006271307560.26405-100000@dt052n3e.san.rr.com> from Doug Barton at "Jun 27, 2000 01:10:27 pm"
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> On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > Thanks! > > > > I hope it wasn't *too* big- I wanted to store all the info somewhere. > > Heck no. If anything, it would be nice if more people included > more detail. Someone (I think it was Peter) recommended that commit > messages should go into detail about _why_ something was done, and touch > lightly on what was done since that info is available in the diff. I'm all > in favor of anything that keeps me from having to go look the diff up, > personally. Which means things like ``Brucify'', ``Sheldonize'', and a handfull of other short one liner messages that tell nothing about what was done or why it was done should be grounds for hand slapping committers. A well written commit message is like a good picture, worth a 1000 words :-) -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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