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From: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
To: Steven Hand <Steven.Hand@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: Re: [Xen-changelog] Fixes.
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:06:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42EFD230.5040906@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Dzzd1-0006rn-00@mta1.cl.cam.ac.uk>

Steven Hand wrote:
>>On Tuesday 02 August 2005 10:42, Xen patchbot -unstable wrote:
>>
>>># HG changeset patch
>>># User smh22@firebug.cl.cam.ac.uk
>>># Node ID 59e76450e286240decceda23eca343ec4604124f
>>># Parent  48dea637aac96bcbabe788d036b52570520cc82e
>>>Fixes.
>>
>>Sorry, but could we not make checkin comments like "Fixes."? It would just 
>>take a few more seconds to describe it in a complete sentence...

Request seconded.

> Sorry - I thought the fix was so trivial it didn't need a long winded
> comment. Myself I use the 'diff' interface on xenbits to discover what
> a given check in does. 

Wait till you're wading through 3000 of these things to find a
particular one, or looking for something that might address
your bug - you'd really appreciate a few words then, rather
than opening a few thousand diff files..also, helps automated
scripts grep for things and triggers, etc..

thanks,
Nivedita

  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-02 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1DzyuA-00011d-Dk@xenbits.xensource.com>
2005-08-02 16:23 ` [Xen-changelog] Fixes Hollis Blanchard
2005-08-02 16:28   ` Steven Hand
2005-08-02 20:06     ` Nivedita Singhvi [this message]
2005-08-02 20:56     ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-08-03  2:18   ` Rusty Russell

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