On 10 mars 2013, at 18:32, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Ok folks, it is this time of the year again: I am trying to make myself
> unpopular.
There's a time of the year for that?
> It also means that commits of the "this really does nothing, but it
> prepares the ground for $xxx, and I don't know just where this is going,
> so quite a bit of it might be changed into something different yet"
> should happen in a branch. Actually, I am of the opinion that most of
> these changes should happen in a branch anyway. A "commit" implies
> commitment, and if one has taken a bad path, redoing it is much harder
> if the dead end has already ended in the main code base.
As the world champion of this style of coding, I can conclusively say that I
have no problem freezing all my experiments except the large translate_axis
call patch, as I am sure that I know where its going and I almost have it
wrapped up after many rounds of revision and review.
Cheers,
MS
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