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Re: contribution checklist in the wiki
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- Cc: GDB Patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 14:23:37 +0400
- Subject: Re: contribution checklist in the wiki
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> That I'm not so sure. I do find them useful for archaeology. My
> current view mirrors Alexandre's here, so I'll just make his words
> mine :-) :
>
> http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-04/msg00100.html
I don't want to open a debate over this, as we would first need
to switch to git in order for me to make a possibly-compelling
argument in favor of getting rid of them. But the reason why I got
rid of them at AdaCore is that git log has become a much more
powerful way to perform searches (you can limit the output using
criteria such as dates, or author, for instance). In the meantime,
they stopped getting in the way, as they were are a constant source
of merge/cherry-pick conflicts.
--
Joel