Diego Novillo <dnovi...@google.com> writes: > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com> wrote: >> Hi, as noted in gcc/go/README.gcc, the files in gcc/go/gofrontend are >> actually mirrored from a different repository. Please do not directly >> commit changes to those files. Instead, send the changes to me. I >> will commit them upstream. Thanks. >> >> Ian > > Ugh, sorry. This is really counter-intuitive. To properly test > changes, one needs the patch in the tree. So when I do the final > commit, it is not easy to remember that I need to take it out (and > taking it out means undoing a local commit, which is yet another > operation). > > Sorry, but I would expect these problems to continue. Is it possible > for you to cope in some other way? Like your merging script noticing > changes and incorporating them into your tree? > > Alternately, would it be possible to install some kind of svn hook > that only allows certain users to commit?
+1 FWIW. I think anyone making an interface change is going to assume that they should update all in-tree users. It's unusual to say that people should knowingly break the build. Thanks, Richard
