Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch

[Robert Anderson]

On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 15:58, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:37:15PM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Robert Anderson wrote:
> > 
> > > > Personally I do see some of Andrea points. I'm using explicit tagging
> > > > because, like Andrea, I do want to commit strictly.
> > >
> > > What is the source of this canard?  What does "strict commits" have to
> > > do with explicit tagging?  Please explain your thought process.
> > 
> > Ok, I will ;) I come from a school where we didn't like things (files
> > included in a commit) magically happen. I do fairly often use-and-trash C
> > (or Perl or whatever) test source files that are used to test something
> > and that I do not want to be included in my commits. I do not care of
> > doing {add, delete, move}-tag to include only things that I want to be
> > included. It is not absolutely my plan to force everyone to share this
> > methodology, like at the same time you should recognize that people are
> > used to do things in different ways.
> 
> Exactly.

Please catch up with the thread before agreeing with things that have
been shown not to hold any water.

Thanks.

Bob