Re: FYI: merge GNU Classpath GUI work

[Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org>]

On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 17:58 -0400, Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
> I didn't do any tagging.  There have been other times when libgcj has had 
> patches beyond the currently-released GNU Classpath.  I guess I don't understand 
> why this is any different.  I merged GNU Classpath HEAD as of 2006-06-08.

- Because it is a pain to figure out precisely where on a certain date
  source was taken (especially these days with classpath cvs where we
  have 20 patches a day).
- Because we have a procedure documented in HACKING how we do things now
  to help avoid any pain of having to track down local changes these
  days.
- Because if you don't use svn for importing the external source and
  using svn merge then next time you cannot make svn merge help you with
  the next import again.

I do appreciate you doing importing and merging because I know how much
work that is. But please do respect the external source import customs
so others after you have an easier time doing new fresh imports. We
document these things to help each other be more efficient. So it is
nice to follow the documentation. Or at least update and improve it if
you think your method is better and easier.

Thanks,

Mark

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