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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: reminder: winning smallish project
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Miles Bader |
Subject: |
[Gnu-arch-users] Re: reminder: winning smallish project |
Date: |
20 Sep 2003 15:55:32 +0900 |
Robert Collins <address@hidden> writes:
> > It's as if it never happened at all except for the historical note
> > included in the patch logs.
>
> Thats a misleading analogy.
>
> 'it's as if it never happened except for the record that it happened'
> !!!
It may sound silly, but it's not. It's like bookkeeping -- you never
want to delete history, so you can't erase the record that you made a
mistake, but you can correct the mistake, by adding a correction entry.
In that case, the mistaken entry probably doesn't correspond to any
real world event -- it's a mistake -- but there's a record of it.
If you're correcting a mistaken changeset, you want to do the same
thing. The normal act of replay --reverse is a funnier operation
(even if the implementation is more straightforward).
Hmmm, I wonder what term bookkeepers use for this...
-Miles
--
`The suburb is an obsolete and contradictory form of human settlement'
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Miles Bader <=
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: reminder: winning smallish project, Tom Lord, 2003/09/20
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: reminder: winning smallish project, Stig Brautaset, 2003/09/20
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] reminder: winning smallish project, Robert Anderson, 2003/09/19