Miscellaneous jar improvements

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/9/10 Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com>:
> 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.
>

Admittedly on the command line it's just a case of less data being
generated.  The problem is more acute when you're viewing the
changeset via the web interface, where you have to click through to
view the whole changeset to determine what's going on.  Take a look at
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/shortlog and then compare it
with http://hg.openjdk.java.net/hsx/hsx16/master/shortlog

> Andrew.
>



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