svn commit: r228896 - head/contrib/netcat

[Ulrich Spörlein]

On Mon, 2011-12-26 at 01:14:28 -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 12/26/2011 01:07, Xin LI wrote:
> > Author: delphij
> > Date: Mon Dec 26 09:07:08 2011
> > New Revision: 228896
> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/228896
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Merge from OpenBSD 5.0 (this is a dummy change, the vendor change does not
> >   apply to us).
> 
> When I'm importing stat(1) stuff from Net/OpenBSD I don't do this. I
> will however comment in the commit log for the next substantive change,
> "Skipped update N.NN because the change was not relevant to us," or
> words to that effect.
> 
> I'm not suggesting that my way of doing this is perfect, or cannot be
> improved. I would suggest however that this change was needless churn.

I think it was the right thing to do. It's better to have one person
(Xin LI) figure out if the change is needed or a no-op and do the
upgrade to match our version to upstream's version, than to have a
discrepancy between the two and cause half a dozen developers that
stumble upon that difference to scratch their heads and spend time in
figuring out if we should import the change.

Cheers,
Uli