port_history - track port commit message comments

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Mon Oct 30 18:56:45 UTC 2006


Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu wrote:

> The problem with the OP's work is that some submitters/commiters think
> that the CVS commit message should document the _port_ changes while
> others think it should also document (or at least provide pointers) to
> the changes in the software itself

Good commit messages should do both.

On the other hand, there is no substitute for the user/admin thinking
for themselves. I think that if we try to overengineer making things
foolproof, the universe will simply conspire to create "better" fools.

Doug

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