RE: Trivial patches?

At 03:00 PM 08/07/2005 -0700, Matthew Janulewicz wrote:
>Maybe make a patch for some other functionality and slip that in as a
>rider. ;)

Isn't this the polar opposite of the best practice? Patches should address
a single issue, even if that issue is a 1 character grammatical correction...

I don't know how religiously SVN is following this practice, but I know of
other projects where you could practically be hung for slipping in an
unrelated fix with a patch. For instance, the mono project regularly
rejects patches that alter whitespace, even if only 1 line is affected and
the patch contains significant changes nearby (they require the author to
correct the patch so that it does not alter any existing whitespace at all).

Jonathan Gilbert

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Received on Sat Jul 9 00:51:04 2005