Brendan Eich wrote:Yeah, I was swinging back toward "Fix bug 43241 (r=foopy)" after my visit to logorrhea land -- but didn't you like my big summer-vacation-was-nice essays below that rev? Not that those were any more comprehensible to an "outsider" -- we must use jargon, we cannot write tutorials or starting-from-zero-knowledge books in CVS log comments.[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Is the attached example (near and dear to me) too much or too little? I sometimes feel like I'm saying too much. Disk is cheap./beUnified resolve recursion damping (70358) and resolve-from-js_SetProperty (72354), r/sr=jband,jst,shaver.I gues this might mean something to somebody, but it is meaningless to me...Some of the other ones I understand, however ;) (Unified resolve recursion damping???)
<humbleopinion>I agree, there's no formula, esp. not the "Fix 34251" anti-formula.There is no formula for writing a checkin comment (or a code comment) - just try to remember that other people might want to be able to get a sense of what you did without examining the diffs.</humbleopinion >
I'll keep other logs to myself, jband's had his fun at my expense for this one from that file:
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revision 3.64
date: 2000/09/21 01:37:02; author: brendan%mozilla.org;
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Fix 53268, r=jband.
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:-)
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- marc
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