Re: FYI: merge GNU Classpath GUI work

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Thomas Fitzsimmons writes:
 > Mark Wielaard wrote:
 > > 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.
 > 
 > OK, sorry.  I guess I was treating this as an intermediate patch
 > rather than a merge, but I'll do some tagging next time.

It's easy to CVS tag retroactively: if you've still got the
checked-out tree, do 'cvs tag'.  If you haven't, check out using the
same time and 'cvs tag'.

Andrew.