On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 20:41:41 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 08:25:33PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> Agreed. The package is not a repository for cherrypicking patches >> but intended to used as a whole thing. > > I am pretty disappointed about that attitude towards your users. What > exactly is the problem with a little more docs to _allow_ cherrypicking? > > Greetings > Marc
A large problem with this is that patches in our -source packages assume a certain order. A patch may depend upon another patch; removing one breaks the other. We have this problem when cherry-picking changes from bitkeeper; I'd imagine it gets even worse when you attempt to pick changes from -source packages.