svn commit: r210321 - head/lib/libelf

Bruce Evans brde at optusnet.com.au
Wed Jul 21 09:51:53 UTC 2010


On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:43:48AM +0000, Kai Wang wrote:
>> Log:
>>   Remove a superfluous comment.
>>
>>   Obtained from:	     elftoolchain
>>   MFC after:	     1 month
>
> (Just picking random of the similar commits): guys, please, try to
> uniformly align commit meta tags:

It is perfectly aligned with tabs (and no 2-char commit mail indentation,
and no N-char mailer quoting).

> Obtained from:	somewhere
> MFC after:	sometime
> Foo bar:	baz qux ...
>
> Broken alignment considerably pessimizes commit log grasping, as it
> requires more post-processing work after reading it off.

Do you mean for human grasping and automated post-processing?  The automation
should have no problems with the whitespace but might with the mailer quoting.

"tags" should mean the part before the ":".  Aligning those by making them
all of the same length would help.

Bruce


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