Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch

[Robert Anderson]

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 22:37, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Robert Anderson wrote:
> 
> > > Personally I do see some of Andrea points. I'm using explicit tagging
> > > because, like Andrea, I do want to commit strictly.
> >
> > What is the source of this canard?  What does "strict commits" have to
> > do with explicit tagging?  Please explain your thought process.
> 
> Ok, I will ;) I come from a school where we didn't like things (files
> included in a commit) magically happen. I do fairly often use-and-trash C
> (or Perl or whatever) test source files that are used to test something
> and that I do not want to be included in my commits. I do not care of
> doing {add, delete, move}-tag to include only things that I want to be
> included. It is not absolutely my plan to force everyone to share this
> methodology, like at the same time you should recognize that people are
> used to do things in different ways.

Davide,

        That's the part I understand.

        What I don't understand is why you seem to think this means you need
"explicit" mode.  Can you explain that part?  In other words, please
explain why "tagline" mode is insufficient for your needs.

Thanks,
Bob