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OLS: Shuttleworth on free software development

OLS: Shuttleworth on free software development

Posted Aug 1, 2008 5:37 UTC (Fri) by njs (guest, #40338)
In reply to: OLS: Shuttleworth on free software development by dlang
Parent article: OLS: Shuttleworth on free software development

It's not a replacement for the maintainer, it's a replacement for your vcs's 'commit' command.
No vcs that I'm familiar with has a commit command that will stop you from merging silly code
to trunk either.


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OLS: Shuttleworth on free software development

Posted Aug 1, 2008 6:08 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

with all the good choices of VCS out there, why would you choose to use one that required a
replacement for it's commit command instead of just using one that doesn't require such a
replacment?

OLS: Shuttleworth on free software development

Posted Aug 1, 2008 6:27 UTC (Fri) by njs (guest, #40338) [Link]

Because none of those VCSes have the functionality you want, i.e., to aid the desired workflow
of all development on branches, clean merges to trunk, trunk always passes testsuite...?

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