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Re: RFA: Breakpoint infrastructure cleanups [0/8]
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 15:07:26 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> said:
> I don't ask for people to use branches, because it's a bloody
> nuisance. Once all patches have gone onto a branch, reproducing a
> series of logically contained patches that are small enough to be
> acceptable to the GDB Gods is an additional week or month of work.
> I prefer when possible to do work in increments, on mainline.
I don't see any reason for a branch here. The extra work is a pain,
and the patches have already started generating a nice amount of
productive discussion, more (I suspect) than they would have gotten if
they were on a branch. Incremental development on mainline is good;
branching might be appropriate if you're trying to chose between two
choices and undoing the wrong choice would be a fair amount of work,
or if you can't figure out how to do something incrementally, but I
don't think that's the situation with these patches.
David Carlton
carlton@kealia.com