From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2375 invoked by alias); 8 Oct 2003 19:44:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 2363 invoked from network); 8 Oct 2003 19:44:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hawaii.kealia.com) (209.3.10.89) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 8 Oct 2003 19:44:55 -0000 Received: by hawaii.kealia.com (Postfix, from userid 2049) id E6EDDCB32; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 12:44:54 -0700 (PDT) To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Elena Zannoni , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, Michael Snyder Subject: Re: RFA: Breakpoint infrastructure cleanups [0/8] References: <20031008165534.GA8718@nevyn.them.org> <16260.19698.165606.470200@localhost.redhat.com> <3F845FA9.8010001@redhat.com> <20031008190726.GB13579@nevyn.them.org> From: David Carlton Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 19:44:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20031008190726.GB13579@nevyn.them.org> (Daniel Jacobowitz's message of "Wed, 8 Oct 2003 15:07:26 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-10/txt/msg00249.txt.bz2 On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 15:07:26 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz said: > I don't ask for people to use branches, because it's a bloody > nuisance. Once all patches have gone onto a branch, reproducing a > series of logically contained patches that are small enough to be > acceptable to the GDB Gods is an additional week or month of work. > I prefer when possible to do work in increments, on mainline. I don't see any reason for a branch here. The extra work is a pain, and the patches have already started generating a nice amount of productive discussion, more (I suspect) than they would have gotten if they were on a branch. Incremental development on mainline is good; branching might be appropriate if you're trying to chose between two choices and undoing the wrong choice would be a fair amount of work, or if you can't figure out how to do something incrementally, but I don't think that's the situation with these patches. David Carlton carlton@kealia.com