[PATCH 5 of 5 perfarce] output and progress cleanups

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Tue Dec 2 17:51:10 CST 2014


On Tue, 2014-12-02 at 22:37 +0100, Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen
wrote:
> On 02/12/2014, at 22.08, Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> > On 11/29/2014 06:52 AM, Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen wrote:
> >> # HG changeset patch
> >> # User Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen  <danchr at gmail.com>
> >> # Date 1417271360 -3600
> >> #      Sat Nov 29 15:29:20 2014 +0100
> >> # Node ID 382131969f6483bd5f2aeb84391ceb147f37f637
> >> # Parent  1f548aff09cd75a949bce95d88e4a6f80e449304
> >> output and progress cleanups
> > 
> > This series looks good (a bit unsure about the last changesets that do multiple things and his therefor hard to read).
> > 
> > But I've not idea about what I'm supposed to do with such patches.
> 
> My understanding was that the Mercurial list was an appropriate location for discussing extensions that have no other list :) Frank replied to the introductory email — but that was suppressed by automatic filters, and so didn't get to this list.
> 
> (From a bit of searching, I see Matt decided that introductory
> messages are so obnoxious that they should be entirely suppressed. I
> found no mention of this on the wiki,

I've been discouraging them since at least early 2009. You haven't been
gone that long. But here's what it says on the wiki:

        http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ContributingChanges
        
        5. all relevant info is in the commit message for posterity (not
        a "0 of N" message) 
        
        ...
        
        Please do not send a 0 of X summary message. Those will be
        deleted in the inbox of code reviewers, and never be read. It's
        totally fine to discuss the history and purpose of a patch in a
        patch description. Future archaeologists will thank you. 
        
>  and the rejection was extremely terse and unhelpful. I'd suggest
> either replacing the notice with something less rude, or — even better
> — dropping it all together and go back to politely reminding people
> that they shouldn't send such messages.)

Tried that for years. Didn't work.

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