On Friday 15 June 2018 01:13 PM, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 2:58 AM Simon Ruderich <simon@ruderich.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 10:25:03PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:
>>> This patch is extra noisy due to the indentation change. Viewing it with
>>> "git diff -w" helps. An alternative to re-indenting would have been to
>>> "undefine NEEDS_LIBICONV", however, 'undefine' was added to GNU make in
>>> 3.82 but MacOS is stuck on 3.81 (from 2006) so 'undefine' was avoided.
>>
>> Should we put the part about MacOS's make into the commit
>> message? Seems like relevant information for future readers.
> 
> No. The bit of commentary mentioning MacOS's very old 'make' was just
> talking about a possible alternate way of implementing the change.
> That alternative was not chosen, so talking about old 'make' in the
> commit message would be confusing for readers.

Interesting. Documentation/SubmittinPatches reads:

    The body should provide a meaningful commit message, which:
    ...
    <snip>
    ...
    . alternate solutions considered but discarded, if any.

The consensus has changed, maybe? In which case, should we remove that
statement from there?


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