Re: Branching ext/standard?
At 00:03 23-08-01, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
Simply committing at once with: "rewrite everything that has to do with
rand" won't be any useful. 80% of the diff is the moving of code, and only
20% the real change. You also don't see what changed. Just as bad as mixing
WS fixes with real fixes.
I don't think you would get too many comments if you commit to a branch either.
What I would do in your case is:
(a) Tag the relevant files as they are today (i.e., PRE_RAND_REDESIGN or whatever)
(b) Commit your move-around changes
(c) Commit the real changes (can be done immediately after (b), as long as it's separate)
(d) Cross your fingers :)
If we like it, the tree will be fixed quite quickly. If we don't, we can revert easily.
I usually don't encourage people to commit changes that break the tree, but as we're not anywhere near a new release (that is, 4.0.7 already branched) having the tree broken for a few hours or even a couple of days under the 'less-mainstream' configurations is not a complete disaster...
Zeev
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