Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: release goals for Bazaar 1.1

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Adrian" == Adrian Irving-Beer <address@hidden> writes:

    Adrian> Heh, agreed.  It skips one step ahead in one possible
    Adrian> chain of action, i.e. bug found -> annotate -> fix it ->
    Adrian> blame someone (sometimes with the latter two reversed).
    Adrian> Frankly, that course of action suggests a pretty
    Adrian> dysfunctional and unproductive project crew to me.

What should happen is that you turn down the arrogance and politely
ask the person who checked in the change "what were you thinking?  I
don't understand it, and it looks to me like it's this cause of *this*
reported misbehavior."  All too often, people charge ahead and check
in a fix that fails in a different and even more obscure way, often
without cc'ing the person who wrote the original code.

    Adrian> Subversion probably meant it to be cute.  I find it
    Adrian> annoyingly cheeky.

That may be.  "Annotate" doesn't say at all what the command does,
though, except in a very generic way.  I'm probably just mentally
blocked, but at the moment I can't come up with an idiom that has the
same semantics as "blame" without the connotations: "finger",
"arrest", "accuse", ... ah, got it: "credit", or "colophon" ;-).


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