svn commit: r540489 - in head/devel/fhist: . files

[Mathieu Arnold]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 01:59:12PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 03:47:52PM +0200, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> > Now, the patches in the ports tree need to have a correct and coherent
> > behavior, and fuzzy patching gets it wrong from time to time.  This is
> > why range information is not noise, but important metadata that we
> > prefer to be correct all the time.
> 
> Well, to your definition of "we". :-)  But I get it: you prefer perfect
> patches and noisy commit diffs; I prefer okayish (correctly applicable)
> patches and cleaner commit diffs.

Well, "we" in that sentence is defined as "ports committers".  So you
may want to personnally have patch play russian roulette with the
patches from your ports, but this is not what we want.

We want patches that apply cleanly, without patch having to randonly
decide where it is going to put the different hunks.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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