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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: named patches, patch order, patch queue manage
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: named patches, patch order, patch queue manager |
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Thu, 2 Oct 2003 08:18:26 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> The one thing that bothers me is namespace pollution -- sure I
> can use naming conventions to avoid gross conflicts (e.g., call
> all my `named patches' something like CAT--patch-NAME--0), but
> having a flat namespace for all branch names might be a bit
> annoying after a while, e.g., when looking at abrowse output,
> you'd see every single named patch, regardless of whether
> obsolete or not, and for some of the major linux hackers,
> there'd be _many_ such patches.
It's not that hard to work with multiple commit-to archives at once
and, as time has passed, people have been providing little command
tweaks that make it even easier. So, that gives you a two-level
namespace and, moreover, one that interacts nicely with units of
administrivia like mirroring.
(As you earlier observed, having all my prism-merge branches in 2003b
was a questionable idea -- when I next cycle archives I intend to
factor them out exactly this way.)
> Perhaps it could be as simple as having an `hidden' (or `closed') flag
> in archive branches/versions/something, so that `tla abrowse' and `tla
> branches' wouldn't show them by default (say unless given given a
> --hidden option); of course branch creation &c would still see them.
> Then after a patch was merged into Linus's tree, you could just mark it
> as hidden.
> This might also be useful in general, since probably people have certain
> branches/categories that are basically obsolete, but which following
> arch practic, probably shouldn't be deleted from the archive.
Hmm.
-t
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: named patches, patch order, patch queue manager (was: the infinite thread), Tobias C. Rittweiler, 2003/10/01
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: named patches, patch order, patch queue manager (was: the infinite thread), Davide Libenzi, 2003/10/01
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: named patches, patch order, patch queue manager, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/10/01
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: named patches, patch order, patch queue manager, Davide Libenzi, 2003/10/02
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: named patches, patch order, patch queue manager, Samium Gromoff, 2003/10/02
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: named patches, patch order, patch queue manager, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/10/02
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: named patches, patch order, patch queue manager, Miles Bader, 2003/10/02
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: named patches, patch order, patch queue manager, Andrew Suffield, 2003/10/02
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: named patches, patch order, patch queue manager, Miles Bader, 2003/10/02
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: named patches, patch order, patch queue manager,
Tom Lord <=
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: named patches, patch order, patch queue manager, Miles Bader, 2003/10/02
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: named patches, patch order, patch queue manager, Tom Lord, 2003/10/02
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: named patches, patch order, patch queue manager, Miles Bader, 2003/10/02
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: named patches, patch order, patch queue manager, Pau Aliagas, 2003/10/02
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: named patches, patch order, patch queue manager, Miles Bader, 2003/10/02
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: named patches, patch order, patch queue manager, Pau Aliagas, 2003/10/02
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: named patches, patch order, patch queue manager, Miles Bader, 2003/10/02
- [Gnu-arch-users] named patches and "Does Linus matter?", Tom Lord, 2003/10/02
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: named patches and "Does Linus matter?", Davide Libenzi, 2003/10/02
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: named patches and "Does Linus matter?", Tom Lord, 2003/10/02