From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Roland Winkler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: patch vs. overwrite in bzr [was: Next pretest, and regressions policy] Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 03:20:26 -0500 Message-ID: <87398lgrat.fsf_-_@niu.edu> References: <87k42cwys8.fsf@gnu.org> <87limhuldm.fsf@gnu.org> <871uo7g4j6.fsf@gnu.org> <87iphjhbm8.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1333441249 9390 80.91.229.3 (3 Apr 2012 08:20:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 08:20:49 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 03 10:20:47 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SEyyn-0006Dx-GY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:20:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53286 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SEyym-0004AY-Rk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:20:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45939) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SEyyf-0004A7-Lt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:20:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SEyyd-0008Sb-OC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:20:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:38026) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SEyyd-0008SX-Ks for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:20:31 -0400 Original-Received: from pchdb00005.uni-regensburg.de ([132.199.129.10]:60796 helo=regnitz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SEyyc-0002N2-QR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:20:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 01 Apr 2012 09:30:38 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:149318 Archived-At: 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. Most of my knowledge about using bzr with emacs development stems from http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BzrForEmacsDevs where I couldn't find anything about this. Thanks, Roland