Personally, I top post every now and then :-P
I see no problem with it. In many cases, I inline or bottom-post when
I'm referring to specific text in a quote. But if it is just a general
reply... bah. Top post.
Cheers,
-g
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Hyrum K. Wright
<hyrum_wright_at_mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
> [ note that I've reflowed this conversation so it'd readable. Please bottom
> post in the future. Thanks! ]
>
> Mark Eichin wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Hyrum K. Wright
>> <hyrum_wright_at_mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
>>> Mark Eichin wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Hyrum K. Wright
>>>> <hyrum_wright_at_mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
>>>>> New official branch date: Nov. 12.
>>>>
>>>> Does that suggest that the "empty revision range" fix could get
>>>> included in 1.6, if I could get some one to look at it in the next
>>>> week?
>>>
>>> I'm not familiar with the specific fix you are referring to, but the
>>> basic gist of what gets into a release and what doesn't can be found here:
>>> http://subversion.tigris.org/hacking.html#release-numbering
>>>
>>> Has the patch you refer to already been committed to trunk?
>>
>> http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2008-10/1170.shtml has the description,
>> suggested patch, and attached script to reproduce the problem by
>> creating a repository and doing some simple merges (subject: svn
>> mergeinfo bug with script to reproduce it (finally)! (was Re: empty
>> mergeinfo produced by svn_mergeinfo_inheritable))
>>
>> As far as release definitions go, I'd actually want to see it go in
>> 1.5.5 (since it breaks merges and was introduced in 1.5.0), but I
>> haven't gotten any responses (beyond another end user reporting that
>> they see the problem too...)
>
> You didn't answer my question, but I gather by your response that the patch
> isn't yet in trunk. At this point, it depends on if somebody finds the time to
> review the patch and commit the fix. With people working to get trunk in a
> branchable state, that might not happen for a while.
>
> However, if the patch is a bug fix, there's no problem with it going into the
> branch after it's created, so you've got some home. I'd wait a couple of weeks
> for things to settle down and then poke people again.
>
> -Hyrum
>
>
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