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Re: master has switched from Automake to GNU Make
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Stephen Leake |
Subject: |
Re: master has switched from Automake to GNU Make |
Date: |
Sun, 26 Mar 2017 07:58:40 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.91 (windows-nt) |
martin rudalics <address@hidden> writes:
>>> My concerns were with what happens in the branch as long as it is not
>>> final. Why throw away its history when pushing? Because it contains
>>> silly code its author would be ashamed of?
>>
>> Yes, but I would phrase it "it contained a failed approach, so here's a
>> better approach".
>>
>> Or, "the sequence of commits is too hard to follow, since it has false
>> starts and back-tracking, so here's a cleaner sequence".
>
> How often I wished to see on master the dirty sequence of how someone
> came to the conclusion that the last version is the correct one. How
> often would this have prevent me from entering precisely the same false
> starts and back-tracking, saving me many, many hours of silly work.
That's what design docs are for; either in .texi or code comments. But
the Emacs culture isn't good at capturing that information.
--
-- Stephe
- Re: master has switched from Automake to GNU Make, (continued)
- Re: master has switched from Automake to GNU Make, martin rudalics, 2017/03/23
- Re: master has switched from Automake to GNU Make, Stefan Monnier, 2017/03/23
- Re: master has switched from Automake to GNU Make, martin rudalics, 2017/03/24
- Re: master has switched from Automake to GNU Make, Stefan Monnier, 2017/03/24
- Re: master has switched from Automake to GNU Make, martin rudalics, 2017/03/24
- Re: master has switched from Automake to GNU Make, Stefan Monnier, 2017/03/24
- Re: master has switched from Automake to GNU Make, Lars Brinkhoff, 2017/03/24
- Re: master has switched from Automake to GNU Make, martin rudalics, 2017/03/24
- Re: master has switched from Automake to GNU Make, Stephen Leake, 2017/03/24
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