svn commit: r313878 - head/sys/kern

Pedro Giffuni pfg at FreeBSD.org
Tue Feb 21 00:48:21 UTC 2017


FWIW,


On 2/20/2017 7:24 PM, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> On 2/17/2017 7:40 AM, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
>> Author: mjg
>> Date: Fri Feb 17 15:40:24 2017
>> New Revision: 313878
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/313878
>>
>> Log:
>>    mtx: get rid of file/line args from slow paths if they are unused
>>    
>>    This denotes changes which went in by accident in r313877.
> I really wish people would just revert their changes and recommit them
> properly.  The 'svn blame' on the code in r313877 will never show the
> commit message here (r313878).  So a person would only find this
> explanation if they read 'svn log' on the file, which in the case of
> sys/kern/kern_mutex.c there are 273 commits for.  Are we expected to
> read 'svn log' (in the future) for all changes in the hopes that a later
> commit happens to mention it?
>
> As someone who so often is 'svn blame'ing code to understand it better
> and to track regressions, commits like this that explain other commits
> might as well have never been done.

As I mentioned in another thread, other svn configurations (ASF, for 
example) permit editing the log message:

http://help.collab.net/index.jsp?topic=/faq/changelog.html

Cheers,

Pedro.



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