Re: [Gnu-arch-users] GCC v. Arch address@hidden: Regressions on mainline]

[Andrew Suffield]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:15:30AM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
> I'd be worried that committers will be frustrated by the lag time
> between when the commit and when what they've committed appears in
> mainline.  For example, it would mean I couldn't say to you, on the
> phone from far away, "Oh, I have something for that that's been
> tested.  Lemme go ahead and check it in and then call you back in 15
> mintues after you check it out."  Instead it would be "Oh I have
> something for that .... I'll check it in and call you back tomorrow
> after archive-side testing completes."

Oh, do think about it; you tell them you committed it to your own
branch :P

[Otherwise yes, running tests between every pair of revisions is
stupid and wrong and useless - can we stop talking about it now
please? :P]

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