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Re: Please, do not use the merged revisions log as the commit message when merging
- From: "Manuel López-Ibáñez" <lopezibanez at gmail dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, "John Freeman" <jfreeman at cs dot tamu dot edu>
- Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 18:42:12 +0200
- Subject: Re: Please, do not use the merged revisions log as the commit message when merging
- References: <48A8837F.3020101@cs.tamu.edu> <20080905163002.GA20163@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
2008/9/5 Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@gcc.gnu.org>:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 03:01:03PM -0500, John Freeman wrote:
>> Daniel Berlin wrote:
>>
>>> It's listed on the wiki that explains how to maintain branches :)
>>>
>> I had no idea such a wiki even existed. It would really help future
>> contributors, I'm sure, if, perhaps during copyright assignment, there were
>> some sort of "introduction" process that clearly communicated policies.
>> Thank you for the heads up.
>
> But, you did do it again, just a little while ago.
>
> Please stop doing that! You're swamping gcc.gnu.org and causing unnecessary
> work for me.
>
> I will be instituting some safeguards against this kind of mail-bombing going
> forward but, nevertheless, this really should not be a common occurrence.
Please Christopher, feel free to take my patch at here, modify it,
test it and ping whoever is responsible to review such changes:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-08/msg01972.html
Unfortunately, I cannot work on GCC at the moment, so I cannot do it myself.
Cheers,
Manuel.