From: Felipe Contreras Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 13:46:50 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] sequencer: trivial fix Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Duy Nguyen wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Felipe Contreras > wrote: >> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Duy Nguyen wrote: >>> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 11:52 PM, Felipe Contreras >>> wrote: >>>> We should free objects before leaving. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras >>> >>> Micronit: perhaps you should move the "free obejcts before leaving" >>> (in do_pick_commit) to the subject instead of "trivial fix", which >>> adds no value to the patch. >> >> Perhaps. I prefer it this way because it's really a trivial fix not >> really worth much time thinking about it. So when somebody is browsing >> the history they can happily skip this one. The time save by not >> reading I think adds more value than any succinct description that >> would force each and every patch-reviewer/history-reader to read it. > > Some time from now, assume a ridiculus case when this function grows > more complex and somebody wonders what the "leave" label is for, "git > log --oneline -Slabel:" showing "trivial fix" would not help much. Fortunately that's not the main use-case, and for that single instance that probably will never happen, I think it's not too much to ask to this hypothetical developer to remove the --oneline, or copy-paste the SHA-1 and take a peek. He would probably need to do that anyway. -- Felipe Contreras