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To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Subject: Re: How often to commit? (was: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa if_ex.c) 
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Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 11:01:49 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <20000115130818.G349@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Greg Lehey writes:
: When I see messages like this, all containing relatively small
: modifications, I wonder if we should come to some agreement on how
: often a commit should be made for modules on which we're actively
: working.  I'm not picking on mdodd (well, only in the sense that I
: noticed these three commits); I'm just wondering.  I tend to go to the
: other extreme myself, testing changes in some detail before making a
: mega-commit.  I suspect that the truth lies somewhere between these
: two extremes.  Would anybody like to discuss where it might be?

I personally am at the commit early commit often end of the spectrum.
I've found that my "daily" commits to the non-functional newcard stuff 
has generated interest and help that I don't think would have been
there had I saved them all up for one big mega commit.  It also has
helped me in other projects when I go off and do a lot of work and
find that the last two days are a blind alley.  If there was a
checkpoint near where the divergence began, my job of backing out the
blind alley is much easier.

Also, I don't trust the disks on the machines that I'm hacking FreeBSD 
on for the project.  I trust the multiple, redundant worldwide backup
of the cvs tree better :-)

Warner


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