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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: release goals for Bazaar 1.1
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Stephen J. Turnbull |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: release goals for Bazaar 1.1 |
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Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:30:08 +0900 |
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>>>>> "Adrian" == Adrian Irving-Beer <address@hidden> writes:
Adrian> Heh, agreed. It skips one step ahead in one possible
Adrian> chain of action, i.e. bug found -> annotate -> fix it ->
Adrian> blame someone (sometimes with the latter two reversed).
Adrian> Frankly, that course of action suggests a pretty
Adrian> dysfunctional and unproductive project crew to me.
What should happen is that you turn down the arrogance and politely
ask the person who checked in the change "what were you thinking? I
don't understand it, and it looks to me like it's this cause of *this*
reported misbehavior." All too often, people charge ahead and check
in a fix that fails in a different and even more obscure way, often
without cc'ing the person who wrote the original code.
Adrian> Subversion probably meant it to be cute. I find it
Adrian> annoyingly cheeky.
That may be. "Annotate" doesn't say at all what the command does,
though, except in a very generic way. I'm probably just mentally
blocked, but at the moment I can't come up with an idiom that has the
same semantics as "blame" without the connotations: "finger",
"arrest", "accuse", ... ah, got it: "credit", or "colophon" ;-).
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- [Gnu-arch-users] release goals for Bazaar 1.1, Robert Collins, 2004/12/03
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] release goals for Bazaar 1.1, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/12/03
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: release goals for Bazaar 1.1, Anand Kumria, 2004/12/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: release goals for Bazaar 1.1, Mikhael Goikhman, 2004/12/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: release goals for Bazaar 1.1, Adrian Irving-Beer, 2004/12/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: release goals for Bazaar 1.1,
Stephen J. Turnbull <=
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: release goals for Bazaar 1.1, John S. Yates, Jr., 2004/12/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: release goals for Bazaar 1.1, John A Meinel, 2004/12/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: release goals for Bazaar 1.1, Nikolai Weibull, 2004/12/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: release goals for Bazaar 1.1, John A Meinel, 2004/12/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: release goals for Bazaar 1.1, Mikhael Goikhman, 2004/12/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: release goals for Bazaar 1.1, John A Meinel, 2004/12/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: release goals for Bazaar 1.1, Milan Cvetkovic, 2004/12/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: release goals for Bazaar 1.1, Stig Brautaset, 2004/12/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: release goals for Bazaar 1.1, Mikhael Goikhman, 2004/12/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: release goals for Bazaar 1.1, Stig Brautaset, 2004/12/14