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

[Aaron Bentley]

James Blackwell wrote:
> (I replied to Bentley because I couldn't find the parent message)
>
> Bentley makes some excellent points here. There is another point that
> underscores his position.

I think you're misrepresenting my position.  I'm not saying "no 
backwards-incompatible changes" and no sane person would.  Your post 
comes close to saying "any backwards-incompatible changes", but I don't 
think that's what you mean.

I think the right answer is "it depends", and that means looking at the 
specific case.

I think you'd be justified in complaining if tla were to arbitrarily 
change "get" to "checkout", without leaving a backwards-compatibility alias.

I didn't consider the removal of '--report' to be a bad thing, although 
I'd have prefered some kind of warning that it had gone away, and a 
backwards-compatibility alias would have been nice.  I think that, on 
the whole, regularizing that interface is worth the cost of fixing scripts.

Aaron

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Aaron Bentley
Director of Technology
Panometrics, Inc.