[fpc-other] Fork

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Sun Oct 24 19:11:33 CEST 2010


In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
> > Graeme's last mail where he explains he just wants to drop quick and dirty
> > patches AND IT IS FPC'S CORE TEAM JOB to make head or tails of it,
> > explains the fundamental misconception better than I could do here.
> 
> And here I thought that is what a detailed commit log is for. Correct
> me if I'm wrong, but it seems the norm of SubVersion users is to give
> one liner commit comments. That is just wrong. The normal in Git
> repositories, well at least git.git repo and our company repos, is to
> give a much more detailed commit message. Makes applying patches a
> breeze, as well as when you have no review a old commit.

I don't understand what providing quick and dirty patches that are not
cleansed in the bug tracker has to do with a VCS. Either SVN, GIT or etching
sources into metal plates.


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