Re: emacs-w3m?

[David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>]

On Feb 24, 2010, at 9:11 PM, Robert J. Chassell wrote:

>    You seem to have committed share/emacs/site-lisp/w3m/ and the files
>    to the Emacs trunk.  Isn't it a mistake?
> 
> Yes.  

So, this has been rectified by another commit, but now everyone has 30MB of garbage in their history.

Mistakes can happen, and they will especially since the bzr setup makes it easy to commit all changed files and push them without further checks.  Entering the log message in an editor makes it easier to see the list of changed files - the -m parameter for a quick change seems dangerous.  I am a little surprised that additional files got added without explicit interaction with bzr.

The big question is whether this memory leak is acceptable.  We have 30 MB extra in this case.   Even if this is less when compressed, we're talking a lot of total storage given some 500 copies of the repository (??) and infinitely more bandwidth incurred in the future when checking out the repo.  (Infinite because Emacs will never die.)

Would the equivalent of "git reset olderrevid ;  git push -f" inconvenience people very much?