Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/sparc64/sparc64

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 13:57:32 +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:

> > > XXX pullup-8
> > > XXX pullup-9
> > > XXX pullup-10
> > 
> > I wonder if we should stop abusing commit messages as pull-up
> > reminders.  These XXX will not convey any useful information a few
> > months down the line...
> 
> Happy to try a better mechanism if you have suggestions, but this is
> the best one I've found so far!  If I don't mark commits this way, I'm
> almost guaranteed not to pull them up.

I'm not sure any exists even with modern VCS.  May be something like a
branch that is not closed until it is merged (pulled-up) to all the
intended destination (but then the very notion of the closed branch
requires something more modern than CVS).  The problem with the XXX in
the commit message is that you don't easily know if you _did_ pull
them up, b/c you cannot amend that comment.  To add to the fun, I
think releng scripts just clone the commit message on pull ups, so
that comment gets splattered all over the target branches too.

-uwe