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Re: gengtype improvements for plugins, completed! patch 1/N [declprog]
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Also, for patch series as big as this one you should really, really learn
> quilt or git. (I wrote my own simplified version of quilt, but I was a
> student when I did...).
Or, for the future, submit minimal self-contained patches as you go along
as far as possible rather than building up a huge change you then need to
split up. My multilibs / option handling series has more than 40 patches
so far (the exact number depending on how you count), submitted and
reviewed one at a time rather than building up a branch and then trying to
split it, no quilt, no git.
Whenever in the course of a larger development you find yourself fixing an
issue present on trunk, or cleaning up in a way also applicable to trunk,
you should at least consider stopping making that change in the context of
your larger development, preparing and submitting a trunk version of that
fix instead, then merging trunk into the sources used for your larger
development to get the fix into them.
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com