Re: Trivial patches?

On Jul 8, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Jonathan Gilbert wrote:

> 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).

I do believe that Matthew's post was a joke. You removed the
additional line

> The floor would like to recognize the Senator from Podunk, ID.

Joke or not, any such patch would never make it into Subversion--our
committers take patch review very seriously.

-Fitz

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Received on Sat Jul 9 05:34:01 2005