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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [GNU-arch-dev] Re: how to fix a bad log message
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Andrew Suffield |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [GNU-arch-dev] Re: how to fix a bad log message? |
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Wed, 9 Feb 2005 19:28:09 +0000 |
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On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:48:28AM -0500, Michael Poole wrote:
> Adrian Irving-Beer writes:
>
> > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 09:19:12AM -0500, John S. Yates, Jr. wrote:
> >
> > > I understand the model. I understand the purity/simplicity/rigor
> > > arguments. But I also recognize that in the real world things are
> > > not nearly as clean as you all want to make it.
> >
> > Actually, in the 'real world', things are even cleaner, since everyone
> > knows you can't go back to fix your mistakes, and there's no mailing
> > list to request that feature on. ;)
> >
> > But of course you mean software management in the real world. Do you
> > have examples of when this proposed undo functionality is required?
> > Examples where simply committing a reversal isn't sufficient?
>
> One real-world example of needing that sort of operation was when bad
> RAM caused a corrupt patch to be committed on a project I maintain.
> (I think it was triggered by the pristine tree becoming corrupt; a
> diff inside the patch was incorrect.) Trying to apply the patch to a
> correct tree made tla panic. After some work, I did replace the patch
> with a correct version.
>
> The now-fixed bug of renaming (and changing?) an old file at the same
> time as creating a different file with the previous name could also
> generate a corrupt patch. Since I did not know as much about the
> archive format when that bug bit me, I could not find a better way to
> fix it than to create a new archive.
Tag around the broken patch, so that it is no longer part of your
ancestry.
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- Re: [GNU-arch-dev] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] how to fix a bad log message?, John A Meinel, 2005/02/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [GNU-arch-dev] Re: how to fix a bad log message?, Aaron Bentley, 2005/02/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [GNU-arch-dev] Re: how to fix a bad log message?, Clark McGrew, 2005/02/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [GNU-arch-dev] Re: how to fix a bad log message?, Michael Poole, 2005/02/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [GNU-arch-dev] Re: how to fix a bad log message?, Aaron Bentley, 2005/02/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [GNU-arch-dev] Re: how to fix a bad log message?, Andrew Suffield, 2005/02/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [GNU-arch-dev] Re: how to fix a bad log message?, Aaron Bentley, 2005/02/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [GNU-arch-dev] Re: how to fix a bad log message?, Andrew Suffield, 2005/02/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [GNU-arch-dev] Re: how to fix a bad log message?, Aaron Bentley, 2005/02/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [GNU-arch-dev] Re: how to fix a bad log message?, Tom Lord, 2005/02/09