Gareth McCaughan <gareth.mccaughan@pobox.com> writes:
> Karl Fogel wrote:
> > Careful, those are two different practices there.
> > Yes, a patch should be about one thing, and not include unrelated changes.
> > No, a patch for a 1 character typo is not necessarily worth the time.
>
> (Context suggests that "necessarily" could be replaced with
> "ever, except perhaps in a few exceptional cases".)
Yes, that's what I meant.
> Corollary: No single-character typo will ever be fixed,
> unless something else in the same vicinity requires changing.
>
> Further corollary: Comments in Subversion's source code
> will, over time, approach a state where the density of
> single-character typos is just barely low enough that
> no patch small and local enough to be "about one thing"
> fixes enough of them to be worth while.
>
> Remark: That would suck.
>
> Perhaps when it reaches this state someone will make
> a single patch that fixes hundreds of little typos, and
> that can be considered to be "about one thing", namely
> fixing typos.
>
> :-)
Yes, I think that chain of logic is reasonable :-).
-Karl
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Received on Mon Jul 11 18:31:32 2005