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

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

On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 22:35:40 +0700, Robert Elz wrote:

>     Date:        Mon, 20 Feb 2023 16:47:01 +0300
>     From:        Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>
>     Message-ID:  <Y/N51ZoGvp0ibynw%pony.stderr.spb.ru@localhost>
> 
>   | 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...
> 
> I think they're useful (if only I remembered to add them all the
> times I should) - it allows someone looking at the commit log to
> easily determine that the change is also intended for another branch.
> Then one can check and see if it happened or not, and if not, send
> a reminder if it is important/needed.
> 
> If the pullup annotation is missing, I tend to assume that the change
> is not intended to be pulled up - either it isn't applicable, or is
> something new that isn't appropriate for older releases.
> 
> That's why I will sometimes even include pullup annotations for ancient
> versions of NetBSD, even though I know they will never happen (never get
> submitted, much less acted upon) - just as an indication that the problem
> being fixed exists from long ago.

In that case they have no business being "XXX" :)

-uwe