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> References: <4C6D80A0.4080901@freebsd.org> <20100819.131658.84240036293427615.imp@bsdimp.com> <AANLkTim4dRH4sHQMaR-5TKvPWmmUDX%2B7DMqJjC=yPSEh@mail.gmail.com>
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In message: <AANLkTim4dRH4sHQMaR-5TKvPWmmUDX+7DMqJjC=3DyPSEh@mail.gmail= .com> 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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