[OpenAFS-devel] Re: Building binary rpms for 1.5.77
Phillip Moore
w.phillip.moore@gmail.com
Thu, 7 Oct 2010 17:59:24 -0400
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Good enough for Russ? Then it's good enough for me...
This is clearly a case where the dependencies won't matter.
Thanks.
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:
> Phillip Moore <w.phillip.moore@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I'm about to submit another patch, but is it *really* necessary to
> > create a branch even for one-liners like this one? Is there a problem
> > if I submit a patch against the head of origin/master?
>
> > Just trying to be lazy...
>
> I'm lazy like that all the time. I usually just do small patches against
> my local master branch and push them from there. When you do that,
> they'll show up in Gerrit as having a dependency on any previous
> as-yet-unmerged patches, which is what having a separate branch protects
> against. But the current version of Gerrit is smart enough to be able to
> merge patches out of order despite supposed dependencies if there isn't a
> real dependency, so it mostly doesn't matter.
>
> --
> Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
>
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<div><br></div>Good enough for Russ? =A0Then it's good enough for me...=
=A0<div><br></div><div>This is clearly a case where the dependencies won=
9;t matter.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks.<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quo=
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On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Russ Allbery <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=
=3D"mailto:rra@stanford.edu">rra@stanford.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blo=
ckquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #c=
cc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class=3D"im">Phillip Moore <<a href=3D"mailto:w.phillip.moore@gmail=
.com">w.phillip.moore@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
<br>
> I'm about to submit another patch, but is it *really* necessary to=
<br>
> create a branch even for one-liners like this one? =A0Is there a probl=
em<br>
> if I submit a patch against the head of origin/master?<br>
<br>
> Just trying to be lazy...<br>
<br>
</div>I'm lazy like that all the time. =A0I usually just do small patch=
es against<br>
my local master branch and push them from there. =A0When you do that,<br>
they'll show up in Gerrit as having a dependency on any previous<br>
as-yet-unmerged patches, which is what having a separate branch protects<br=
>
against. =A0But the current version of Gerrit is smart enough to be able to=
<br>
merge patches out of order despite supposed dependencies if there isn't=
a<br>
real dependency, so it mostly doesn't matter.<br>
<font color=3D"#888888"><br>
--<br>
Russ Allbery (<a href=3D"mailto:rra@stanford.edu">rra@stanford.edu</a>) =A0=
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 <<a href=3D"http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/" target=3D=
"_blank">http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/</a>><br>
</font></blockquote></div><br></div>
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