On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 10:23:59AM -0700, John Nemeth wrote: > On Jun 23, 6:57am, m...@netbsd.org wrote: > } > } > Log Message: > } > Revert previous > } > > } > There is fallout in gdb that will be investigated before relanding this. > } > > } > > } > To generate a diff of this commit: > } > cvs rdiff -u -r1.363 -r1.364 src/sys/kern/kern_sig.c > } > } Looking at this file on GitHub's history it looks like: > } > } Revert previous > } 2 days ago > } > } Enhance reliability of ptrace(2) in a debuggee with multiple LWPs > } 2 days ago > } > } Eliminate PS_NOTIFYSTOP remnants from the kernel > } 2 days ago > } > } It's hard to tell whether you reverted both, or just the last one. > } > } It would be nice if, in general, we avoided stateful commit messages > } like this, and included a snippet of the original commit message. > } > } e.g. Revert previous "Enhance reliability of ptrace(2) in a ..." > > "revert previous" generally means the immediately preceeding > commit. If github can't easily show you what that is, then that > is its problem. > > }-- End of excerpt from m...@netbsd.org
One can infer the purpose of commits from their content, too, so maybe we can do away with commit messages entirely.