Re: git: bb8dbe1580ae - main - sysutils/lnav: Fix distinfo

On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 01:28:59PM +0900, Yasuhiro Kimura wrote:
> ...
> have no preference about it. I just keep what is written.  So I'm just
> confused to be complained about it to me.

Kimura-san,

I guess I shouldn't have concentrate on this DIST/PORT version thing
which drove attention away from the main point, which is why gratuitous
changes are pessimization and should be avoided (we'd also ignore the
SNR issue for now).  Previously, the Makefile reader would see the
commit which updated the port to version 0.10.1 in the plain "git
blame Makefile" output.  Now, it's clobbered, so takes a "git blame
bb8dbe1580ae0^ Makefile" to get the needed hash.  Admittedly, you've
done a good job providing enough details in the commit log, including
the original update hash, but that does not happen all the time (most
people are lazy), and does not relieve one of having to deal with
incomprehensible git hashes (unlike small integer revisions we had
before which could at least be recognized, if not memorized -- that
helped with multi-level blaming a lot; now with git this is harder).

./danfe