Re: [Gnu-arch-users] "tla commit" generates a patch-set even if there are no changes

[Robert Widhopf-Fenk]

On Friday, May 14, 2004 at 11:10:32, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Julian T. J. Midgley wrote:
> > In article <address@hidden>,
> > Aaron Bentley  <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> >>The harm comes from changing the default behavior.  I have scripts
> >>that I run from cron that would be broken by that change.  tla
> >>isn't very user-friendly.  Scripts can make it smoother.  Let's
> >>not make tla script-unfriendly too.
> > 
> > 
> > A little disingenuity is in danger of creeping in here.  tla with
> > a "--force" option to commit would be no more or less
> > "script-unfriendly" than it is now.
> 
> I said "the harm comes from changing the default behavior".  That's
> a script-unfriendly policy.
[...]

Changing "wrong" default behavior earlier is better than
changing it later when even more people will complain about
breaking their scripts.

I must admit I have no glue about the purpose of the scripts
people are muttering about. 

Cheers Robert