Re: [dwm] Mail list

From: Diego Biurrun <diego_AT_biurrun.de>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:25:34 +0100

Sorry for butting in late, but ..

On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:37:30PM +0100, Jukka Salmi wrote:
> Anselm R. Garbe --> dwm (2007-01-18 13:21:11 +0100):
> > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 12:58:54PM +0100, Javier wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > > I'm subscribed to the suckless hackers mail list and I think it could
> > > be great if hg changes mails include the patch of each revision. Is it
> > > possible? Am I the only person who thinks it's a good idea?
> >
> > What do others think about this proposal?
>
> Hmm, and if the changes are huge? I don't think this is a good idea...

Huge changes on a small program? How?

> The commit mail already includes the revision number, thus it's easy
> enough to get the patch (cd $dwm; hg log -r$rev -p).

But this way nobody can discuss and comment on the patch. Review is not
going to take place. If Anselm doesn't care, oh well, but this is what
these kinds of mailing lists are good for in the first place ...

Diego
Received on Thu Jan 25 2007 - 13:26:10 UTC

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