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From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
To: <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Typos in gdb/mi
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:02:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53F358D3.2070006@ericsson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lsusda$1hs$1@ger.gmane.org>

On 14-08-19 02:55 AM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> On 08/18/2014 07:17 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>>> I understand the motivation for making the change, and it does make
>>> the code better; thanks for taking the time!
>>>
>>> However, I was burned in past, when such cleanup patches caused merge
>>> problems for any local patches anybody might have. I wonder what
>>> others think?
>>
>> If it makes the code better, let's push it. It's not the contributor's
>> fault that other people's as-yet-unpushed patches may or may not collide.
>> If we have conflicting patches, their authors will just have to adjust,
>> as we often do when doing collaborative work on the same area of the code.
> 
> The question is whether combined price the community will pay for such
> adjustment is not greater than any improvements due to fixed typos.
> I'd be happy to go with your guidance, as far as GDB goes.
> 
> I've looked at the patch, and see nothing wrong. Simon, can you push it for
> Andreas?

The reason Andreas proposed this patch is actually to set up his account. He
has other patches in the pipeline that will require more discussion and back
& forth. We thought it would be a good idea for him to submit a small,
non-controversial patch to go through the account setup process.

Does it make sense?

> Thanks,
> Volodya
> 
> 


      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-08-19 14:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-18  8:49 Andreas From
2014-08-18 14:03 ` Vladimir Prus
2014-08-18 15:17   ` Joel Brobecker
2014-08-18 15:48     ` Simon Marchi
2014-08-19  6:43       ` Joel Brobecker
2014-08-19  6:55     ` Vladimir Prus
2014-08-19  7:12       ` Joel Brobecker
2014-08-19 14:02       ` Simon Marchi [this message]

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