From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: patch vs. overwrite in bzr [was: Next pretest, and regressions policy]
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:36:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871uo5c7r0.fsf@wanadoo.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87398lgrat.fsf_-_@niu.edu
Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org> writes:
> On Sun, Apr 01 2012, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> At a first glance, there are places where copyright notices and other
>>> boilerplate are overwritten with older text. The most glaring case is
>>> this:
>>
>> Once again: please *never ever* overwrite files. Always apply
>> a patch instead.
>
> I read this at several occassions. -- I am not an expert with bzr and I
> was wondering whether "never overwriting files" translates into a
> recommended work flow with bzr.
Stefan's advice has nothing to do with bzr. It is about not blindly
overwriting changes made on the emacs repo with the new version of the
externally-maintained package (`Org' is in this case.) Applying a patch
gives a lot more opportunities for noticing conflicts (suppossing that
the hacker cares to examine the output of the patch command, that is.)
[snip]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-03 12:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-22 13:28 Next pretest, and regressions policy Chong Yidong
2012-03-31 10:15 ` Bastien
2012-04-01 9:55 ` Bastien
2012-04-01 12:37 ` =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?=
2012-04-01 13:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-01 17:09 ` Chong Yidong
2012-04-01 20:32 ` Bastien
2012-04-02 4:12 ` Chong Yidong
2012-04-01 20:32 ` Bastien
2012-04-03 8:20 ` patch vs. overwrite in bzr [was: Next pretest, and regressions policy] Roland Winkler
2012-04-03 12:36 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2012-04-03 13:42 ` Bastien
2012-04-03 15:02 ` patch vs. overwrite in bzr =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?=
2012-04-03 15:03 ` David Engster
2012-04-03 16:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-03 17:40 ` Michael Albinus
2012-04-03 15:32 ` patch vs. overwrite in bzr [was: Next pretest, and regressions policy] Stefan Monnier
2012-04-03 16:52 ` patch vs. overwrite in bzr Glenn Morris
2012-04-03 20:50 ` Bastien
2012-04-03 21:27 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-04 0:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-04 5:45 ` Bastien
2012-04-04 5:51 ` Bastien
2012-04-04 6:46 ` Michael Albinus
2012-04-04 8:35 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-04-04 13:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-04 16:39 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2012-04-04 16:52 ` Paul Eggert
2012-04-04 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-04 17:53 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-04-04 19:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-04 19:38 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-04-04 20:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-04 13:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-04 17:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-04 18:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-04 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-04 20:11 ` David Engster
2012-04-04 22:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-05 3:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-05 13:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-05 15:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-04-05 15:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-05 17:10 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-04-06 7:13 ` Richard Stallman
2012-04-06 8:29 ` Bastien
2012-04-06 8:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-06 9:20 ` Bastien
2012-04-06 9:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-06 10:20 ` Bastien
2012-04-06 17:26 ` chad
2012-04-06 20:01 ` joakim
2012-04-06 20:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-07 2:28 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-04-07 6:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-07 11:56 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-04-07 12:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-07 12:56 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-04-07 13:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-07 13:42 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-04-07 7:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-04-07 11:44 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-04-06 21:10 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-04-16 10:45 ` Jason Rumney
2012-04-16 16:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-06 16:17 ` Christophe Poncy
2012-04-06 16:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-06 17:14 ` Christophe Poncy
2012-04-07 0:17 ` Richard Stallman
2012-04-07 0:17 ` Richard Stallman
2012-04-07 9:15 ` Bastien
2012-04-07 22:19 ` Richard Stallman
2012-04-09 9:39 ` Bastien
2012-04-08 3:25 ` Richard Stallman
2012-04-08 15:52 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-04-16 22:02 ` Richard Stallman
2012-04-06 8:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-04 17:12 ` patch vs. overwrite in bzr [was: Next pretest, and regressions policy] Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-05 7:13 ` Bastien
2012-04-05 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-11 14:36 ` Bastien
2012-04-04 18:01 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-04-05 7:19 ` Bastien
2012-04-05 9:16 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-04-01 20:35 ` Next pretest, and regressions policy Bastien
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