Ralf's Remove CVS Id Commits

Joel Sherrill joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com
Fri May 4 17:47:17 UTC 2012


On 05/04/2012 12:43 PM, Thomas Doerfler wrote:
> Ralf,
>
> I forgot this in my previous mail: If you need further instructions on
> how to properly work with GIT (use the tool the way it is meant to be
> used), I am sure the community can help you. So feel free to ask.
Agreed. We have all made or will make git mistakes.
> Thomas.
>
>
>
> Am 04.05.2012 18:34, schrieb Ralf Corsepius:
>> On 05/04/2012 05:07 PM, Thomas Doerfler wrote:
>>> Ralf,
>>>
>>> Am 04.05.2012 16:44, schrieb Ralf Corsepius:
>>>> On 05/04/2012 04:10 PM, Thomas Doerfler wrote:
>>>>> These changes belong together. Nobody wants this change to be done in
>>>>> one BSP and NOT done in a different one.
>>>> Did you actually have a look into the patches?
>>> Yes and no. I read some at the beginning, some in the middle and some at
>>> the end of your two patch sequences. I saw that each patch performs
>>> similar modifications for different directories or dir trees. I saw that
>>> you have committed separate patches with similar changes for each BSP or
>>> group of BSPs.
>> Correct ...
>>
>>> I am sure you don't want the community to inspect each patch separately?
>> Pardon, I am the original author of all the files and probably nobody
>> knows these better than me. I had applied many much more intrusive
>> patches in similar ways many times before.
>>
>> I am surely not perfect and surely do not want exclude something might
>> have gone wrong somewhere, but this request of yours makes me sad.
>>
>>> I assume that the goal/intention of each patch is quite silimar. Am I
>>> right here? Or do they have different goals/intentions?
>> ... these changes were script-generated ,. the spots changed were
>> trivial to parse comment blocks.
>>
>>>>> Maybe you should get familiar with the idea that git does apply patches
>>>>> in an atomic way and not in a uncorrelated file-by-file basis as CVS
>>>>> does.
>>>> The mashing up of the commit messages wasn't done by CVS. It was the
>>>> tool being used to produce the commit messages, which was polling at 1
>>>> hour intervals and glueing together independent commits.
>>> Why did you let it glue independent commits?
>> I did not do anything - This was the tool somebody (I think it was
>> Chris) had installed on rtems.org to send CVS commit logs.
>>
>> Ralf
>


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