Re: Patches with independent changes

[Paul Eggert]

On 01/24/2014 01:39 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> they both address the fact that fchmod is not available on Windows. 
> One without the other would break the build on Windows.

I wasn't referring to two hunks in the patch. I was referring to two of 
the changes installed by that patch. One change worked around 
WINDOWSNT's lack of fchmod, and the other replaced "!=" with "<".The 
changes were independent and only the first change was needed to fix the 
bug.

> That I used < rather than != is immaterial

You thought replacing "!=" with "<" was needed, so the intent of that 
patch was to install multiple independent fixes. Which was fine.

Here's another example. Trunk bzr 116064 fixes a file name handling 
failure on MS-Windows 9X. While it's in the neighborhood, it makes the 
independent changes of removing initialization code for the variable 
g_b_init_is_w9x, and of removing that variable's definition. These 
independent changes weren't needed to fix the bug.

This sort of thing is quite common, and there's nothing wrong with it.
> > [retitling from "Changes in update-game-score.c"]
> [Why?]

Others requested retitling and this seemed reasonable.