On Sat, 3 Dec 2011 17:46:49 +0000 Frank Church <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 3 December 2011 15:48, Mattias Gaertner <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On Sat, 3 Dec 2011 16:15:24 +0100 > > Bart <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Reported by lainz in the bugtracker: > > > http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=20799 > > > > Please test. > > > > Mattias > > > > > I don't know how welcome or apt this comment may be as it appears to a > contentious issue, but it has been on my mind for some time. > > Every now and then I see a message about trunk not compiling or some the > feature being broken. > > I thought one of the reasons for proposing a change to Git or some other > distributed VCS is that you do all your work in your local branch, merge > with HEAD frequently and you only push your changes to the main repository > if everything works properly. > It is understood that features may get broken as it they are hard to test, > but shouldn't compilation succeed? It compiled with 2.5.1 and 2.7.1. I copied the code from a place I thought I had tested with 2.4.5. Apparently I have buggy memory. Sorry for that. > This suggests work is being 'saved' to > the repository which shouldn't be the case. Or it suggests that you need some more imagination. FPC is a very fast compiler, so I don't believe any one is committing without compiling first. > I am not proposing a change to git or other if core developers are content > with Subversion, I'd just want to know if it is a reflection of working > practices which may or may not be influenced by the choice of VCS and > methodologies surrounding its usage. ? Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
