Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: taglines vs explicit (was Linus Torvalds <address@hidden> Re: log-buf-len dynamic)

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 01:03:02PM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> I always try to put my believeth under discussion, so yesterday I started
> the fl-cow project with bare-bone tagline. It punctually happened that I
> fired a commit w/out a make distclean and a bunch of cr*p (mainly stuff
> inside autom4te.cache) went inside the patch. I've then understood that my
> believeth were not bad after all ;) Doing move/add/del does cost me zero
> since the number of move/add/del are at least one order of magnitude lower
> than my commits. So prefer to care one order of magnitude less (during
> move/add/del) instead of one order of magnitude more (during commits).

Seconded.

> Note that there's no intention to convince anyone about the superiority of
> one model aginst another here. That's simply the model that fits me.

Same here.

Andrea - If you prefer relying on open source software, check these links:
            rsync.kernel.org::pub/scm/linux/kernel/bkcvs/linux-2.[45]/
            http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/