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Re: Experimental branches
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, gdb-patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 08:17:04 +0400
- Subject: Re: Experimental branches
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> > That one is actually intentional. I really think that those diffs
> > are really useful - at least to me - and this was discussed a bit
> > when I made the proposal to switch to the new hooks. Do you think
> > they are a problem?
>
> Are they really useful? There's always the link at the top of the
> commit email that allows you to view the diff.
I can only speak personally, but I think they are. I usually take
a glance at the diffs that actually went in, and I've been catching
a few little things here and there. Having to click on links makes that
clunky enough that I just don't do it; this is compounded by the fact
that I use a text-based mail-reader. I'm also regularly offline as well
when reading emails (which I have downloaded onto my computer). Having
the diff in the email is also the difference between looking at it and
not.
Despite all that, I do not have a necessarily strong opinion about
this. Unless we actually find that the diffs are causing trouble,
I'd like to give the diffs a try. But if people want to go back,
then I'll make that happen.
--
Joel