Not actually sending patches

Jakub Jelinek jakub@redhat.com
Wed Feb 9 11:16:00 GMT 2011


On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 10:56:43AM +0000, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 09/02/2011 09:41, Eric Botcazou wrote:
> >> I agree with Ralf, gcc-patches should be for patches and their review,
> >> the mails with svn ci output are just noise, something that can be seen
> >> from svn or on gcc-cvs mailing list.
> > 
> > This is documented in http://gcc.gnu.org/svnwrite.html:
> > 
> > "When you have checked in a patch exactly as it has been approved, you do not 
> > need to tell that to people -- including the approver. People interested in 
> > when a particular patch is committed can check SVN or the gcc-cvs list."
> 
>   However this particular patch was neither reviewed nor approved, but
> "committed under simple rule", about which svnwrite.html says:

The obvious rule exists, but then gcc-patches should receive the actual patch
that was checked in, not just ChangeLog entry.

	Jakub



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