Miscellaneous jar improvements

[Andrew Haley]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 2009/9/10 Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com>:
>> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>> 2009/9/10 Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com>:
>>>> Martin Buchholz wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:57, Andrew Haley<aph at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Martin Buchholz wrote:
>>>>>>> changeset:   1283:ff32c270102a
>>>>>>> user:        martin
>>>>>>> date:        Mon Jun 22 21:07:20 2009 -0700
>>>>>>> summary:     6853806: Prefer (cd $dir && jar) to jar -C for performance reasons
>>>> Weird, I can't find that changeset.  Got a URL?
>>>>
>>> changeset:   1341:ff32c270102a
>>> user:        martin
>>> date:        Mon Jun 22 21:07:20 2009 -0700
>>> summary:     6853806: Prefer (cd $dir && jar) to jar -C for performance reasons
>>>
>>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/jdk/rev/ff32c270102a
>> Ta; no idea why i couldn't find it.
>>
>>> Oh the benefits of a useful summary...
>>
>> He.  That's not a summary, it's (almost) the entire comment!
> 
> Ha, yeah.  The bugID per changeset thing does come in useful though
> when you need to do this kind of lookup as you can just search the
> output of hg log for the bug ID.

I don't get it.  How does a summary line help searching?  You could just as
easily, and more reliably, search the full log for the bug ID.

Andrew.