Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin

Kenneth Johansson
2002-01-30T23:59:41Z

Larry McVoy wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 02:17:05PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > The way BK works now, if we call the quick-and-dirty fix "A", and the real
> > fix "B", the developer has a really hard time just sending "B" to me. He'd
> > have to re-clone an earlier BK tree, re-do B in that tree, and then send
> > me the second version.
> >
> > I'm suggesting that he just send me B, and get rid of his tree. There are
> > no dependencies on A, and I do not want _crap_ in my tree just because A
> > was a temporary state for him.
>
> And you just lost some useful information. The fact that so-and-so did
> fix A and then did B is actually useful. It tells me that A didn't work
> and B does. You think it's "crap" and by tossing it dooms all future
> developers to rethink the A->B transition.
>

I think Linus meant that A never got sent out before the developer did the B
version. Now A could be a even bigger bug than what it was intended to fix so the
developer really dont wan't the world to se that sucker but can't just send the B
changeset as it depends on A. So I guess he needs a easy way to make A just go
away. Basically just collaps A and B into the same changeset. This should probably
ony work on changeset that has not been pushed to other trees.