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Re: CVS commit: src/usr.bin/gzip



On 12.06.2018 14:24, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 12:00:01PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
>> On 12.06.2018 11:51, matthew green wrote:
>>>> On 12.06.2018 10:28, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
>>>>> On 12.06.2018 09:04, Martin Husemann wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 05:47:35AM +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote:
>>>>>>> To sum it up, out of 30+ lines of the commit message, the relevant
>>>>>>> information is contained only in (part of) one line.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> FWIW, I fully agree with uwe here.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Martin
>>>>>
>>>>> I find keeping reproducers for issues very useful. Keeping track of them
>>>>> helps to check whether fixes are functional.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also introduction of refactoring without a note in the message is not
>>>>> acceptable in my opinion.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks to the verbose message people have the whole context.
>>>>
>>>> To be clear, I will keep introducing fixes in the same form. I'm
>>>> catching e.g. bugs in programs only in specific usage and input. If I
>>>> will refactor something I will keep including it in messages too.
>>>
>>> that's a pity.
>>>
>>> i don't mind having a little more detail that uwe is talking
>>> about, but i don't think we need nearly as much.  it's worth
>>> mentioning the sanitizer used as the finding-tool, but there
>>> is no need to repeat the basic fix 3 times, or to reproduce
>>> the code change itself.
>>>
>>> please reconsider and use a shorter form.
>>>
>>
>> I will keep messages within 20 lines.
> 
> That's missing the point. A short description of why the specific
> undefined behavior is seen is useful. Pasting random program output is
> not.
> 
> Joerg
> 

Random program output might not be useful, but the one containing
runtime message is.. and it was 1-liner + 1 line how to invoke it and 1
line of runtime error. I have more to come an I will keep documenting
the runtime error messages.

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