svn commit: r240225 - stable/9/sys/cddl/compat/opensolaris/sys

Eitan Adler eadler at freebsd.org
Mon Sep 10 02:42:23 UTC 2012


On 9 September 2012 20:26, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> While reasonable minds can differ on this topic, I regard that as a
> reason _not_ to include the PR number in merges. IMO it's far better to
> have one line "MFCs complete" than it is to repeat the same commit
> message verbatim in GNATS N times.

It is helpful to me when people forget to close the PR. It is also
helpful when tracking down a bug that was fixed in some versions and
not others. This is especially annoying when a fix was for example,
MFCed to 7 and 8, but not 9. This happens more than you would think.
:)

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Eitan Adler
Source & Ports committer
X11, Bugbusting teams


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