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Re: Bootstrap broken
- From: Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>
- To: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:03:16 -0500
- Subject: Re: Bootstrap broken
- References: <10112061936.AA02860@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 02:36:48PM -0500, Richard Kenner wrote:
> You might consider automating more of this with a script.
>
> I did, but the risk there is higher. It's far worse to commit *more* than
> was intended than to commit less. The latter case is easily noticed and
> corrected but the former is not.
I said "automating more of this," not automating /all/ of it. :-)
> There are certain things I feel *much* safer doing manually and applying
> patches is one of them.
That's why a good patch-committing script does a 'cvs diff' for /another/
visual last-minute inspection, and waits for human approval before actually
calling 'cvs commit' with a generated (but human-approved) command line.
I'm recommending automating the tedious tasks, not the decision making.
Phil
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