Re: [Gnu-arch-users] GCC v. Arch address@hidden: Regressions on mainline]

[Colin Walters]

On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 19:11 +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 11:19:14AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 13:20 +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > > Huh, interesting timing. I've been thinking about this problem for a
> > > week or two, and started to put together some of the intrastructure it
> > > needs.
> > > 
> > > Certainly gcc is a good example of a project which this problem, but
> > > I'm not convinced their approach is the best solution. A PQM-driven
> > > mainline that only allows commits which do not cause regressions is
> > > probably what they really want. But it's easy enough to handle what
> > > they currently do.
> > 
> > Isn't that exactly what arch-pqm can do right now?
> 
> Only if you have a magic "Should I merge this?" function.

Of course not, but it allows for enforcing arbitrary user-defined
precommit conditions, i.e., "Does this merge pass the test suite".

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