Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-apr-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 80747 invoked from network); 14 Jun 2008 20:43:14 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 14 Jun 2008 20:43:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 56180 invoked by uid 500); 14 Jun 2008 20:43:15 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-apr-dev-archive@apr.apache.org Received: (qmail 56125 invoked by uid 500); 14 Jun 2008 20:43:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@apr.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Id: Delivered-To: mailing list dev@apr.apache.org Received: (qmail 56114 invoked by uid 99); 14 Jun 2008 20:43:15 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:43:15 -0700 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=10.0 tests= X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received: from [140.211.11.9] (HELO minotaur.apache.org) (140.211.11.9) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with SMTP; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:42:34 +0000 Received: (qmail 80706 invoked by uid 2161); 14 Jun 2008 20:42:52 -0000 Received: from [192.168.2.4] (euler.heimnetz.de [192.168.2.4]) by cerberus.heimnetz.de (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.0 (i386)) with ESMTP id 67B6C1721C for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:42:39 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <48542D42.2010200@apache.org> Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:42:42 +0200 From: Ruediger Pluem User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080313 SeaMonkey/1.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: APR Developer List Subject: Re: Attn New Committers References: <4854282B.9050802@rowe-clan.net> In-Reply-To: <4854282B.9050802@rowe-clan.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org On 06/14/2008 10:20 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > Please don't do this; > > ----------- > Revision 663845 - Directory Listing > Modified Fri Jun 6 07:39:52 2008 UTC (8 days, 12 hours ago) by henryjen > > backport r663342 from trunk > ----------- > > Such commit messages aren't legible when comparing a branch to trunk, > please > repeat the purpose of the commit in the log message for the backport! There is an IMHO pretty cool script from Joe Orton that is very helpful for backporting trunk revisions. It creates a file with all the original commit messages that could be used as commit message for the backport plus it adds the numbers of the revisions that get backported. It can be found here: http://people.apache.org/~jorton/svn.merge Regards Rüdiger