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Re: other/1634: Request for gcc-cvs-patches list
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Cc: Nathanael Nerode <neroden at twcny dot rr dot com>, <gcc-gnats at gcc dot gnu dot org>, <gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 12:51:56 -0800
- Subject: Re: other/1634: Request for gcc-cvs-patches list
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0301112030480.27485-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk>
"Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> writes:
> On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
>
>> To what extent is this request superseded by the links in gcc-cvs messages to
>> the cvsweb pages giving precisely the corresponding patches?
>
> It isn't. Following hundreds of links a day of the offchance that one
> might be wrongly reverting something or wrongly committing something isn't
> a reasonable solution to the problem. The idea of this wishlist request
> is that the patches themselves go by in email - exactly as committed,
> which may differ from how they were sent to gcc-patches, or they may not
> have been sent to gcc-patches - for bogus reversions, or bogus changes
> (e.g. other changes in the same tree that weren't part of the given patch
> and shouldn't have been committed) to be spotted.
Also so that years later it is easy to get hands on the complete change
committed to CVS as a unit, for backporting or whatever.
zw