cvs commit: ports/ftp/gwget Makefile distinfo pkg-plist ports/ftp/gwget/files patch-src__gwget_data.c patch-src_gwget_data.c patch-src_main.c patch-src_wget-log.c

Vasil Dimov vd at FreeBSD.org
Thu May 11 10:01:27 UTC 2006


On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:52:19AM +0100, Florent Thoumie wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 08:29 +0300, Vasil Dimov wrote:
> > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 07:08:09PM +0000, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> > > sat         2006-05-10 19:08:09 UTC
> > [...]
> > >   1.1       +10 -0     ports/ftp/gwget/files/patch-src__gwget_data.c (new)
> > >   1.2       +0 -10     ports/ftp/gwget/files/patch-src_gwget_data.c (dead)
> > 
> > About the patches filenaming under files/ we are trying to follow some
> > convention - see ports/Tools/scripts/splitpatch.pl, it's best to always
> > use that for generating the file names for new patches.
> > 
> > The reason for not renaming all ports/*/*/files/* to conform to a single
> > convention is that the history would be lost.
> 
> Really, who cares? I'm not even sure Kris looks at patches history :-)
At least me :-) History is really very important. In this particular
case it's more important than the filenaming convention.

> 
> The main reason for me is to avoid useless commits/traffic.
Yes, this is another reason for leaving the files' names as they are.

> Eventually we split those patches when they're changed.
> 
Coz future maintainability is more important than history :-)

-- 
Vasil Dimov
gro.DSBeerF at dv

Testing can show the presence of bugs, but not their absence.
                -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
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