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Re: [PATCH 06/10] * modules/pselect: Add select, LIBSOCKET.
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: [PATCH 06/10] * modules/pselect: Add select, LIBSOCKET. |
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Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:50:23 -0700 |
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On 07/06/11 11:48, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> If you've noticed a blunder in your
> ChangeLog *before* pushing, why haven't you amended the commit the
> blunder occurred into, instead of adding the fix in the following
> commit?
Well, partly because I was lazy. But there's a bigger issue here.
I sometimes prefer to let people see my mistakes than to polish and
polish and polish and pretend that I didn't make any. Excessive
polish is common in some fields (mathematics, for example) but it's
inefficient and sometimes even counterproductive in real-worldish
engineering endeavors like gnulib. I often learn from other people's
mistakes, and I imagine that other people sometimes learn from mine.