soc.2008.yahoo: be8be19f: added name to COPYRIGHT (alphabetically)...

Richard Laager rlaager at wiktel.com
Thu May 29 12:46:38 EDT 2008


On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 10:37 +0100, Will Thompson wrote:
> Rather than saying "trivial change in packet.h", perhaps the commit
> message could have said something like "Document guessed meanings of
> some elements of yahoo_service"?  We know from the commit metadata that
> it was packet.h that was modified, but it's useful to have a summary of
> what the trivial change was.  :-)

With Monotone, this is fixable after-the-fact. Sulabh, please run "mtn
comment be8be19f" and provide a proper description. When viewing logs,
it'll be shown after the original commit message.

> (Also, my preference would have been to make the COPYRIGHT change as a
> separate commit.  In case you didn't know, you can use `mtn ci file1
> file2` to only commit changes in those files, ignoring changes in other
> files.)

Why? I'd very much prefer they be done together.

Richard
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