On Jun 6, 2012, at 4:24 PM, Jed Brown wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> What if it is some great fundamental improvement to BuildSystem (like 
> removing 70% of the code and making the rest a million times better)? We in 
> petsc-dev don't benefit from that? That is freaking insane and stupid! Of 
> course we want all updates to BuildSystem otherwise there are essentially two 
> different repositories evolving over time with different things in each one. 
> That is freaking insane! Who designed this stupid subrepo shit? It is 
> completely garbage if what you say is true.
> 
> It's really simple, you commit to petsc-dev after the cool stuff goes into 
> BuildSystem.

"you commit to petsc-dev "

   Show me the EXACT syntax you use to "commit to petsc-dev" and I'll show you 
something stupid that no one will use.

   Barry

> 
> It's a small price to pay for being able to go back to a consistent state and 
> not needing to remember to update BuildSystem.


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