svn commit: r424573 - in head/www: . varnish5 varnish5/files

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Mon Oct 24 17:21:06 UTC 2016


On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 12:00:09PM -0500, Mark Felder wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016, at 11:28, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > I still don't understand why people advocate to use those helper
> > scripts with Subversion. :-(
> 
> They produce nice log messages, solve the problem of making sure your
> entry in Makefile is properly alpha-sorted...

... check the MOVED entries, yeah.  And also allow things to get screwed.

Making sure that a category's Makefile is properly sorted is as easy as
doing "sort Makefile | diff -u Makefile -" (straight from my shell history)
prior to commit, by hand, provided your collation is sane.

> > However, it's a poor excuse.  Please always do "svn st" and "svn diff"
> > before committing.  It is quite clear if repocopy was properly performed
> > or not.

And generally helps to catch last-minute mistakes.  You might want to use
the scripts, but should never trust them blindly.

./danfe


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