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From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Patch notification emails
Date: Sun,  4 Sep 2005 08:59:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a05090405595247edc2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050904123933.GK21486@server4.lensbuddy.com>

> those include no comments or author(BTW, any chances of at least having
> people do changes to sources as something else than 'none'?) and it's
> harder to keep track of what changes belong together, or which ones
> aren't just result of applying a patch(1).

Even the ones that result from applying a patch
often are not verbatim copies of what was in the patch.
I probably edit at least half of the incoming patch code
after applying it and before pushing it to sources.

What makes you think that changes to sources are
being done as none?  

% cd /n/sources/plan9/sys/src/9/port
% ls -lm chan.c
[rsc] --rw-rw-r-- M 130453 glenda sys 31560 Sep  1 01:19 chan.c
% 

Russ


  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-04 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-04 12:14 Uriel
     [not found] ` <ee9e417a05090405316c2f7bab@mail.gmail.com>
2005-09-04 12:39   ` Uriel
2005-09-04 12:59     ` Russ Cox [this message]
2005-09-04 13:09       ` Uriel
2005-09-05  1:15         ` Russ Cox
2005-09-05  1:49 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2005-09-05  2:32 ` Russ Cox

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