From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] gnu: linux-libre-beagle-bone-black: Remove kernel variant. Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 23:13:44 +0200 Message-ID: <87r38320dz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20160926103447.31830-1-david@craven.ch> <20160926103447.31830-4-david@craven.ch> <20160926132344.GA23258@jocasta.intra> <20160926164934.GA25011@jocasta.intra> <20160926173109.GB4625@jasmine> <20160926180017.GA25959@jocasta.intra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45598) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpMAo-0005Ia-QG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2016 17:13:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpMAl-0007I6-M6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2016 17:13:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20160926180017.GA25959@jocasta.intra> (John Darrington's message of "Mon, 26 Sep 2016 20:00:17 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: John Darrington Cc: guix-devel John Darrington skribis: > I don't object to a having a common style. I just wish that the informa= tion > that we put in our messages a) gave the rationale for the change; and b) = didn't > merely repeat information which git show could have told me. The rationale should really go to comments in the code: . A notable exception is reverts or removals: for these, I think it=E2=80=99s= best to have an explanation in the code, so that someone browsing the history can understand why that happened. Ludo=E2=80=99.