First impressions (long)
James Westby
jw+debian at jameswestby.net
Wed Dec 16 16:38:55 GMT 2009
On Mon Dec 14 23:11:14 +0000 2009 Barry Warsaw wrote:
> I hadn't thought about putting the debian/ thread at the top, but your use
> case makes perfect sense. The reason I had put it right above the upstream
> baseline thread is because then everything above it is patches, and you
> wouldn't have to worry as much about where to put your new development
> threads, or what to do with them once you collapse them into the thread you
> want to push to the source branch.
>
> But I think your use case is more important, though I wonder how easy it will
> be to submit thread patches upstream out of order and independently, since
> they'll have all the lower threads mixed in. Maybe that's not a practical
> problem though.
That's the rationale people have for proposing a full DAG of patches.
I'm not against it in principle, but I would have to see an illustration of
a UI for it that didn't chill me to the bone.
Thanks,
James
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