[59650] trunk/dports/net/gvpe/Portfile

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sun Oct 18 13:47:02 PDT 2009


On Oct 18, 2009, at 15:44, Andrew Fernandes wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Ryan Schmidt  
> <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>
>> On Oct 18, 2009, at 14:55, adfernandes at macports.org wrote:
>>
>>> Revision: 59650
>>>         http://trac.macports.org/changeset/59650
>>> Author:   adfernandes at macports.org
>>> Date:     2009-10-18 12:55:00 -0700 (Sun, 18 Oct 2009)
>>> Log Message:
>>> -----------
>>> Closes #22149
>>>
>> It would be great if you could describe in your commit message what  
>> you did, in addition to listing any relevant ticket numbers. For  
>> example, in this case, I would have written "gvpe: updated to 2.22  
>> and took maintainership with openmaintainer; closes #22149". This  
>> makes it much easier when scanning the svn log to get an  
>> understanding of what has been happening with a port. If only  
>> ticket numbers are listed in the log messages, that means I have to  
>> take a detour to the issue tracker to find out what changed, and it  
>> makes it a lot more tedious if I'm reading the log because I'm  
>> trying to find out when a particular change occurred in a port.
>>
>>
>> You can retroactively change your commit messages if you'd like to  
>> add more detail or correct mistakes. For example, to change the  
>> above log message, you would type
>>
>> svn propedit --revprop svn:log -r 59650 .
>
> Oh - sorry!

Not a problem, just wanted to let you know.


> No problem - will fix the current message and do as suggested in the  
> future!

Thanks!



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