Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: commit seal and fix

[David Brown]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:03:55AM +0100, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
> On  8/01, David Brown wrote:
> 
> | I've found them handy for a few situations.  I use them to track vim,
> | but mostly because it matches how Bram releases.  For each major
> | release, he has a series of pre-releases, and then he gives the official
> | release.  After this, come numbered patches, starting with 1.  It
> | matches the numbering scheme that arch uses with --fix and --seal.
> 
> If for any reason you miscommit a release, it will not help you in
> catching up, will it?

No, that is the problem with it.  Since these patches are applied with
scripts, they generally work.  I created and destroyed several archives
in the process of making the scripts.

If it fails for some reason now, I can still go "fix" the archive by
hand, but that isn't a good general solution.

I normally never use --fix and --seal.

Dave