Re: If you want me to quit I will quit

From: Stefan Richter
Date: Sat Apr 26 2008 - 16:50:41 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:
Often it takes quite a long time for problems to become apparent. Across a
month or two we end up with things like:
[...]
that's two patches, each with three followon fixes. Very common.

Fact is, this is the way in which developers want to work. That is their
workflow, and their tools should follow their workflow. If a tool's
behaviour prevents them from implementing their desired workflow, it isn't
the workflow which should be changed ;)

Well, some of the questions here, notably
- when to fold patch + amendment patch into a single patch
- when to publish things to whom
are actually about the workflow, not about the tool.

(And it's good to learn of other people's expectations about it.)
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Stefan Richter
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