On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 22:35:40 +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 16:47:01 +0300 > From: Valery Ushakov <u...@stderr.spb.ru> > Message-ID: <Y/n51zogvp0ib...@pony.stderr.spb.ru> > > | I wonder if we should stop abusing commit messages as pull-up > | reminders. These XXX will not convey any useful information a few > | months down the line... > > I think they're useful (if only I remembered to add them all the > times I should) - it allows someone looking at the commit log to > easily determine that the change is also intended for another branch. > Then one can check and see if it happened or not, and if not, send > a reminder if it is important/needed. > > If the pullup annotation is missing, I tend to assume that the change > is not intended to be pulled up - either it isn't applicable, or is > something new that isn't appropriate for older releases. > > That's why I will sometimes even include pullup annotations for ancient > versions of NetBSD, even though I know they will never happen (never get > submitted, much less acted upon) - just as an indication that the problem > being fixed exists from long ago.
In that case they have no business being "XXX" :) -uwe
