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Date:      Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:08:24 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        jmallett@freebsd.org
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, adrian@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, andre@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r211503 - head/sys/mips/atheros
Message-ID:  <20100819.150824.1004138037722500360.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim4dRH4sHQMaR-5TKvPWmmUDX%2B7DMqJjC=yPSEh@mail.gmail.com>
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            Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
: On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:16, M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:=

: > Branching is a lot easier and saner. =A0But there's still a cost to=

: > branching that must be weighed...
: =

: As long as one isn't trying to be overly-clever in using the tools it=

: really isn't so bad and is about as bad as Perforce.  I don't think w=
e
: should ever use the merge command to merge commits to head from a
: short-lived/non-vendor branch.  It really sounds like you have had an=

: unusually-bad experience with Subversion and I think we should try to=

: dissect that rather than writing off developing in branches.

The tbemd branch has been a pita to keep going as long as I've had
to...

: I haven't had any significant problems with merging from head to my
: branch until I reached the level of having dozens of files and
: directories added in my branch originally and then looped-back from
: head.

yea.  I'll admit that part of my angst is from the projects/mips tree,
which did get somewhat out of hand.

: I, like Adrian, tend to do very sort of incremental work and lots of
: little commits to break up my progress (and to have lots of points to=

: revert to.)  It has generally been my understanding that we frown on
: doing that sort of thing in head.  I don't see the point of generatin=
g
: an E-Mail to everyone who reads the commit lists to add a small,
: unused header file, except in very occasional circumstances.  I think=

: that's a great level of detail to work at in a branch.

Yea, perforce will generate mail only for those that opt in...

Warner



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