Re: [XBoard-devel] source repository

[h.g. muller]

> PLEASE remember to pull before commiting. This is the 2nd
> time I've fixed this. It's a waste of time to keep fixing
> the same problems.

Note that this committed winboard.rc is a RENAMED version of
jaws.rc. You might have fixed it before in winboard.rc, but you
did not fix it in jaws.rc. This has nothing to do with pulling before
committing.

I don't see how this sort of thing cold be a totally avoided even for
normal updates. I cannot commit a version for every character I type,
and even if I could I also would not want to pollute the master version
with temporary modifications for debugging and experimenting. That
would create a huge risk of all kind of crap finding its way in the code
because I later forget to remove it. I maintain that risk by doing such
experimenting in a fork that I then later (soemtimes mintes later) discard
when I am done with the experiment or debugging. But sometimes code
originally intended for later removal is kept somewhat longer or even
permanently; it is not always clear in advance which branch of the fork
will eventually be discarded. Committing both branches would not solve
anything, as other people that want to work on the code would not know
on which branch they should work. In fact it would invite just the sort
of thing you complain about now, where we had committed a JAWS fork
so that the resource files were duplicated.

In general my commits are obsolete a few minutes after I commit them,
as I hardly ever stop working on backend.c and winboard.c for extended
periods. And because I commit through Arun they are sometimes even
obsolete hours or days BEFORE the are visible in the repository. Pulling
such obsolete files is just not an option...