On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Robert Greig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I agree with the above. I have always found patch files a total PITA, > and in any case the review process is about discipline. We should > allow people to commit and try to manage the reviews through reporting The review process is about discipline, but that's something that's traditionally somewhat lacking, and I think review-then-commit actually requires less discipline, and the majority of it is focussed on the person with the biggest stake (the person writing the patch). This should make it more likely that process is followed. > If we had a different SCM tool then maybe we would do it differently. > As another aside I see that svn 1.5.x does improve the merging > capabilities so maybe at last things will get better with that tool. svnmerge in 1.5 is better, but it's still nowhere up to the standards of a proper DVCS (it still loses history, for one thing) - Aidan -- Apache Qpid - World Domination through Advanced Message Queueing http://cwiki.apache.org/qpid "Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time." - Theodore Roosevelt
