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

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:37:15PM -0700, 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.

Exactly.

And it is obvious to me, if you want to do add/delete/move-tag
explicitly by hand as a feature (not as an annoyance), then taglines
only would provide disavantages.

If taglines would still have a value over explicit, it would simply mean
that the explicit method isn't implemented as powerful as it should be,
and that the gap would need to be filled.

Andrea - If you prefer relying on open source software, check these links:
            rsync.kernel.org::pub/scm/linux/kernel/bkcvs/linux-2.[45]/
            http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/