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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: reminder: winning smallish project
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Robert Collins |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: reminder: winning smallish project |
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Sat, 20 Sep 2003 17:02:58 +1000 |
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 16:55, Miles Bader wrote:
> 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.
leaving the patch log behind indicates that the -merge-or-commit was not
a mistake. It was deliberate, you want to prevent the relevant changes
ever being reinstated. Correcting the code - fixing a bug by doing the
opposite change is what you indicate by leaving the log behind.
> 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).
replay --reverse is what you use to indicate a mistake, by backing out
the change. There is a full record that you had made the change and then
reversed it.
I suspect you don't quite grok patchlogs yet.
Rob
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] reminder: winning smallish project, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] reminder: winning smallish project, Robert Collins, 2003/09/19
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] reminder: winning smallish project, Tom Lord, 2003/09/19
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] reminder: winning smallish project, Robert Collins, 2003/09/19
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] reminder: winning smallish project, Jason McCarty, 2003/09/19
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] reminder: winning smallish project, Tom Lord, 2003/09/19
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: reminder: winning smallish project, Miles Bader, 2003/09/19
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: reminder: winning smallish project, Jason McCarty, 2003/09/19
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: reminder: winning smallish project, Miles Bader, 2003/09/19
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: reminder: winning smallish project, Robert Collins, 2003/09/20
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: reminder: winning smallish project, Miles Bader, 2003/09/20
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: reminder: winning smallish project,
Robert Collins <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: reminder: winning smallish project, Miles Bader, 2003/09/20
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: reminder: winning smallish project, Robert Collins, 2003/09/20
- 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