Jan Setje-Eilers wrote: > <45C2A0BE.48044342 at nrubsig.org>Roland Mainz writes: > > Jan Setje-Eilers wrote: > > > > The grub patches are baked into the sources already; I can't comment > > > > on why they continue to exist as separate entities. Perhaps Jan can. > > > > > > Since what was integrated had a fair amount of our own delta on top > > > of these patches, we wanted a copy of what we started with in the gate > > > as documentation. > > > > Ok... question: Why can't we do the same ? Is there a difference between > > *.diff and *.txt even if both are documentation (if it's just that the > > suffix *.diff is not welcome I can rename it... like *.ChMo or *.txt... > > :-) ) ? > > If I violated some rule by checking these in, and I can see how the > diffs are in fact dead code, then the fact that they are not cleaned > up yet shouldn't be used as an excuse to put more useless files into > the gate.
Umpf... in our case it's IMHO not useless. And I doubt your diff file was useless at the time it was checked in... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
