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Re: [PATCH] Fix failing expected error in blame_tests.py

From: Julian Foad <julian.foad_at_wandisco.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:13:50 +0000

Noorul Islam K M wrote:
> Julian Foad <julian.foad_at_wandisco.com> writes:
>
> > On Thu, 2011-02-17, Noorul Islam K M wrote:
> >
> >> Noorul Islam K M <noorul_at_collab.net> writes:
> >> Log
> >> [[[
> >>
> >> Fix failing expected error regex. Also capture ra_neon error.
> >
> > Hi Noorul. Writing a good log message is quite a difficult skill to
> > learn, so please don't be dismayed at my comment here.
> >
>
> Not at all. I am here to learn.
>
> > You need to describe the change at a high level. In the context of the
> > whole project, what is changing, and why? The line above just suggests
> > that this fixes something to do with errors, but doesn't give me a clue
> > whether it was a bug in Subversion or a bug in the tests, or what part
> > of Subversion's behaviour is affected. Imagine that I am (or Kamesh or
> > Stefan or Hyrum is) reading through the output of "svn log" to find
> > commits related to bugs in merging, for example: the message should give
> > me a clue about whether this change is likely to be relevant.
> >
> >> * subversion/svn/blame-cmd.c
> >> (svn_cl__blame): Catch SVN_ERR_FS_NOT_FOUND and display warning.
> >
> > As a consequence of not being able to read what is the purpose of this
> > patch, I have no idea why you are including this change.
> >
>
> Thank you very much. I will keep these points in mind and with help from
> all you I will improve.

Please could you try to write a high-level description of this change
now. I see stsp has committed it in r1071632 but we can still edit it
(a log message is a rev prop and all rev props are editable).

- Julian
Received on 2011-02-17 17:14:32 CET

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