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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] reminder: winning smallish project
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Robert Anderson |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] reminder: winning smallish project |
Date: |
19 Sep 2003 18:52:47 -0700 |
On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 16:49, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 16:03, Robert Anderson wrote:
> > Looking for a fun sure-fire arch contribution?
> >
> > Implement a --no-patch-log option to dopatch (and if you get that far,
> > mkpatch).
> >
> > This would ignore patch-log entries for the application (or generation)
> > of patchsets. This would be especially handy for use in combination
> > with the --reverse flag to dopatch.
> >
> > For example, if you want to revert the effect of patch-7, and commit the
> > resulting change, you'd like to do:
> >
> > tla get-patch cat--branch--0--patch-7
> > tla dopatch --reverse cat--branch--0--patch-7.patches
> >
> > But this also removes the patch-log entries for patch-7, which is
> > definitely not what you want. Rather, you ought to be able to do:
>
> Why is it 'definitely not what you want' ?
>
> I backed out colin walters explicit commit behaviour patch in precisely
> that fashion.
Maybe more precise is "it's never what I want when I do it." The patch
is still there, it just happens to be that another patch inverts it.
A consequence of that is that I don't want merges from lines containing
that patch to try to re-apply it. And why should they? It's already
there.
Bob
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: reminder: winning smallish project, (continued)
- [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, 2003/09/20
- 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,
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