From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: new VC, current with changes up to 1.456
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:57:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710041857.l94IvBrN007742@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1IdUU0-0002UW-Vq@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu\, 04 Oct 2007 13\:27\:32 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> It makes a huge
> difference when looking at the files with ediff. I agree that your new
> ordering makes more sense, but it makes it much harder to look only
> for the things that actually changed (most of the functions move have
> not changed at all...).
>
> The clean way to do this is to install two separate changes: one with
> only substantial changes, not altering the order of the functions, and
> the other changing ONLY the order of the functions and making no real
> change in the code.
>
> How about if you (or someone) reorders the existing functions to match
> the new version? Check that in, and it will be easy to compare the
> new version against the current one.
In the interest of getting this thing merged, I can reorder the vc.el
functions in CVS (if nobody beats me to it). I can't get to it until
tonight (PDT).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-04 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-03 19:24 new VC, current with changes up to 1.456 Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-04 1:10 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-10-04 2:16 ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-04 2:23 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-10-04 17:27 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-04 18:57 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2007-10-04 19:43 ` Eric S. Raymond
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