Re: Can't get a patch through because of weekly development releases.

2010-07-15 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 7/15/10 9:24 AM, "Carl Sorensen" wrote: > > I think that David's idea has some promise now. Create a new branch, with a > version that's unique to this branch. Do all the changes in files to the > new version. Get the patch reviewed (and get the reviewers to ignore the > custom version). >

Re: Can't get a patch through because of weekly development releases.

2010-07-15 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 7/15/10 12:54 PM, "Graham Percival" wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 07:15:38PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: >> Graham Percival writes: >> >>> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 09:24:05AM -0600, Carl Sorensen wrote: I think that David's idea has some promise now. Create a new branch, wit

Re: Can't get a patch through because of weekly development releases.

2010-07-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 07:15:38PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Graham Percival writes: > > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 09:24:05AM -0600, Carl Sorensen wrote: > >> > >> I think that David's idea has some promise now. Create a new branch, with > >> a > >> version that's unique to this branch. >

Re: Can't get a patch through because of weekly development releases.

2010-07-15 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival writes: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 09:24:05AM -0600, Carl Sorensen wrote: >> >> I think that David's idea has some promise now. Create a new branch, with a >> version that's unique to this branch. > > \version "9.999.9" ? How is that unique to a particular branch? -- David Ka

Re: Can't get a patch through because of weekly development releases.

2010-07-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 09:24:05AM -0600, Carl Sorensen wrote: > > I think that David's idea has some promise now. Create a new branch, with a > version that's unique to this branch. \version "9.999.9" ? > When the patch is reviewed, and everything is ready to push, do some sort of > git grep

Re: Can't get a patch through because of weekly development releases.

2010-07-15 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 7/15/10 8:41 AM, "Graham Percival" wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 02:45:41PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: >> Graham Percival writes: > For the record, I'd call the shell script 15 minutes (Carl already > posted the commands, but I suspect it can be done in a "cleaner" > manner with reba

Re: Can't get a patch through because of weekly development releases.

2010-07-15 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 7/15/10 6:45 AM, "David Kastrup" wrote: > Graham Percival writes: > >> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 08:56:25PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: >>> Carl Sorensen writes: >>> The version number of a build from the current git will be higher than the last release version. This particular

Re: Can't get a patch through because of weekly development releases.

2010-07-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 02:45:41PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Graham Percival writes: > > > I think that writing a 5-10 line shell script for easily updating > > version numbers in a patch/commit would be much less work than > > checking all the above, though. > > The idea was to create a sch

Re: Can't get a patch through because of weekly development releases.

2010-07-15 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival writes: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 08:56:25PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: >> Carl Sorensen writes: >> >> > The version number of a build from the current git will be higher than >> > the last release version. This particular patch uses changes in .cc >> > code, so it needs to be

Re: Can't get a patch through because of weekly development releases.

2010-07-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 08:56:25PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Carl Sorensen writes: > > > The version number of a build from the current git will be higher than > > the last release version. This particular patch uses changes in .cc > > code, so it needs to be rebuilt, and hence will always b

Re: Can't get a patch through because of weekly development releases.

2010-07-14 Thread David Kastrup
Carl Sorensen writes: > The version number of a build from the current git will be higher than > the last release version. This particular patch uses changes in .cc > code, so it needs to be rebuilt, and hence will always be a version > ahead of the current git. That sounds like the version num

Re: Can't get a patch through because of weekly development releases.

2010-07-14 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 7/14/10 11:12 AM, "Joe Neeman" wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Carl Sorensen wrote: >> >> >> >> On 7/14/10 4:21 AM, "David Kastrup" wrote: >> Reinhold Kainhofer writes: >> Am Mittwoch, 14. Juli 2010, um 08:47:17 schrieb David Kastrup: Graham Percival w

Re: Can't get a patch through because of weekly development releases.

2010-07-14 Thread Joe Neeman
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Carl Sorensen wrote: > > > > On 7/14/10 4:21 AM, "David Kastrup" wrote: > > > Reinhold Kainhofer writes: > > > >> Am Mittwoch, 14. Juli 2010, um 08:47:17 schrieb David Kastrup: > >>> Graham Percival writes: > But if you're working on a separate branch (as

Re: Can't get a patch through because of weekly development releases.

2010-07-14 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 7/14/10 2:46 AM, "Graham Percival" wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 08:47:17AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: >> Graham Percival writes: >> >>> If you have the patch as a single file, then (in vim) it would be >>> %s/2.13.28/2.13.29/g >>> >>> But if you're working on a separate branch (as

Re: Can't get a patch through because of weekly development releases.

2010-07-14 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 7/14/10 4:21 AM, "David Kastrup" wrote: > Reinhold Kainhofer writes: > >> Am Mittwoch, 14. Juli 2010, um 08:47:17 schrieb David Kastrup: >>> Graham Percival writes: But if you're working on a separate branch (as is right and proper for a major change), then I'm not certain how

Re: Can't get a patch through because of weekly development releases.

2010-07-14 Thread David Kastrup
Reinhold Kainhofer writes: > Am Mittwoch, 14. Juli 2010, um 08:47:17 schrieb David Kastrup: >> Graham Percival writes: >> > But if you're working on a separate branch (as is right and proper >> > for a major change), then I'm not certain how to go about it. I'm >> > looking forward to opinions.

Re: Can't get a patch through because of weekly development releases.

2010-07-14 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Mittwoch, 14. Juli 2010, um 08:47:17 schrieb David Kastrup: > Graham Percival writes: > > But if you're working on a separate branch (as is right and proper > > for a major change), then I'm not certain how to go about it. I'm > > looking forward to opinions. > > I don't see a problem here.

Re: Can't get a patch through because of weekly development releases.

2010-07-14 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 08:47:17AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Graham Percival writes: > > > If you have the patch as a single file, then (in vim) it would be > > %s/2.13.28/2.13.29/g > > > > But if you're working on a separate branch (as is right and proper > > for a major change), then I'm

Re: Can't get a patch through because of weekly development releases.

2010-07-13 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival writes: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 05:30:38PM -0600, Carl Sorensen wrote: >> Because it changes the syntax, I need to change documentation text, >> documentation examples in english, french, spanish, and german (plus >> potentially in hungarian and japanese), documentation snippets

Re: Can't get a patch through because of weekly development releases.

2010-07-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 7/13/10 5:41 PM, "Graham Percival" wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 05:30:38PM -0600, Carl Sorensen wrote: >> Because it changes the syntax, I need to change documentation text, >> documentation examples in english, french, spanish, and german (plus >> potentially in hungarian and japanese)

Re: Can't get a patch through because of weekly development releases.

2010-07-13 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 05:30:38PM -0600, Carl Sorensen wrote: > Because it changes the syntax, I need to change documentation text, > documentation examples in english, french, spanish, and german (plus > potentially in hungarian and japanese), documentation snippets, regression > tests, web examp

Can't get a patch through because of weekly development releases.

2010-07-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
I appreciate the desire for frequent development releases, but there's got to be some better way to work with this that I don't understand. I'm trying to get a major patch approved that changes the syntax for autobeaming. Because it changes the syntax, I need to change documentation text, documen