Re: Quick merge status updates.

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

Dear diary, on Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 02:02:30AM CEST, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...
> Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
> 
> > so this is my attempt to summarize it:
> 
> Ah, our message crossed -- thanks for summarizing it.  I do not
> particularly like any of the solution so far, but maybe the
> patch I just sent out to "do the normal thing unless we are
> running tests" might be the right thing to do.

Yes, I roughly agree. I have some gripes, patches will follow.

> >   (ii) My proposed second solution was to add an autogenerated line to
> > the Git's perl scripts saying something like:
> >
> > 	use lib ('instlibdir', 'srclibdir');
> >
> > This fulfills all (D1), (D2) and (D3)
> 
> If you have srclibdir after instlibdir, aren't you breaking D2?

*Sigh*

Why can't I get it right for once? ;-)

> And I do not think swapping them is right either.  It would
> fullfil D1/D2/D3 but I think it has one bad side effect.

Yes, I agree with your reservations.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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