Robert Miller wrote: >>>> I think the following is a counterexample to "The trac_ prefix does >>>> not bring any useful information." >>> I still think it's not really, and it is just making the name longer, >>> but I don't really care either. >> I don't see the use for it either, but it's not a huge issue for me. > > I should explain my workflow, as I'm probably not the only person > doing this (e.g. Craig). When I'm managing releases is one thing, but > in daily practice, I always download patches to my home directory. > Think about it. Open a terminal, wget a patch, and this is what > happens. It's the easiest thing to do, and if everything starts with > trac_, then they're all in the same place. And it's only five > characters. Every once in a while, when I'm cleaning things out, it's > easier to find and delete all the trac patches, which as John points > out, is nice, since none of the other (proprietary) patches are killed > when I do this. >
+1 Jaap >> I really like having the ticket number first, it makes it easy to see >> (given an ordered list of patches) what patches belong as part of a >> single ticket. E.g. >> >> 6201-heegner.patch >> 6201-referee-fixes.patch >> ... > > +1 > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---