On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 6:30 PM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On wto, 2017-07-25 at 18:26 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 4:29 PM, Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> > On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 12:12 PM, Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> > > On 07/25/2017 09:23 AM, Michał Górny wrote: >> > > > >> > > > How is that relevant? Revision bumps are merely a tool to encourage >> > > > 'automatic' rebuilds of packages during @world upgrade. I can't think >> > > > of >> > > > a single use case where somebody would actually think it sane to >> > > > checkout one commit after another, and run @world upgrade in the middle >> > > > of it. >> > > > >> > > >> > > Revisions are to indicate that one incarnation of a package differs from >> > > another in a way that the user or package manager might care about. And >> > > on principal, it's no business of yours what people want to do with >> > > their tree. If someone wants to check out successive commits and emerge >> > > @world, he's within his rights to do so. >> > >> > I don't feel I should be obligated by policy to support this use case. >> > One revbump per push seems sufficiently safe for 99.9% of users. >> > >> > If you want to do more revbumps, you are free to do so. >> > >> >> What is the point of separating changes by commits if we don't >> generally try to keep each commit working? >> >> Sure, there are some cases where it is just going to be too painful to >> ensure that, and so it doesn't have to be an absolute rule. >> >> However, if somebody is checking out a tree at some point in the past >> they shouldn't have to try to figure out where the last push boundary >> was to ensure that it is sane. Use cases for that include updating >> older systems progressively, or bisecting a problem. > > Guys, please cut this FUD. > > Nothing is broken if you don't revbump. The only thing that doesn't > happen is that the PM isn't obliged to suggest user to upgrade. >
I wasn't referring to revbumps. Just to ensuring that all commits generally work even if they aren't pushed. -- Rich
