On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 19 May 2009 06:44:29 Denys Vlasenko wrote: >> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> wrote: >> > please write your patches against git and use git to generate the log. >> >> Why? Is it some sort of a crusade to force everyone to use >> version control software you like? >> >> I'm sure it isn't, but it may be interpreted as such. > > the more logical answer would be that the tools handle a lot of common > mistakes for the user, and once the tool is learned, allows people to submit > things much quicker and for us to merge things much quicker. > >> I think it's better to be more tolerant to the patch submitters. > > proper submission allows users to submit their changes from the command line > -- where they already have to be in order to generate the diff/patch in the > first place. > > proper submission allows committer (i.e. you): > - save file > - run 1 git command to import the entire thing
Makes sense. I just don't want it to be a hard requirement that every patch people send to ml must be produced by git. It can be a recommended practice. I applied patches with some edits. Thanks Luca. -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
