[FFmpeg-cvslog] r14168 - trunk/libavformat/psxstr.c

Michael Niedermayer michaelni
Fri Jul 11 21:30:24 CEST 2008


Hi

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 07:51:45PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:
[...]
> 
> > I dont need a asshat hook that requires me to write "simplified some code"
> > that does not help anyone.
> 
> Why do I get the impression you are being deliberately awkward just
> for the sake of it?  This is just like with your English. You knowing
> what you simplified on the 11th July 2008, doesn't imply that
> everybody else shares that knowledge.

file psxstr.c
message simplify

what you apparently want is
message: psxstr: simplify

this will not give you any more information.


> 
> > The part which is changed should be mentioned only when its not obvious
> > from the file changed.
> >
> > for git, git-log --stat will show you which files changed with the messages.
> 
> Not on a single line, and that's when it becomes most useful.

Then fix git, svn or whatever you use to display the information you want on
a single line.


> Besides, a change to files like utils.c or dsputils.c might be
> affecting only one or two codecs, and in those cases it's nice
> to know this.

yes, and it should be mentioned for these.
A very bad example would be:

"SSE2 optimizations for Monkey's Audio decoder vector functions"

better would have been

"SSE2 optimizations of add/sub/scalarproduct_int16() which are currently
 used only by the Monkey's Audio decoder"


[...]
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