Re: [dev] which versions are dwm patches intended to apply to cleanly?

2016-07-01 Thread Britton Kerin
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Eric Pruitt wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 01:54:13PM -0800, Britton Kerin wrote: >> I'm not going to try to fix patches I don't use myself, it's possible >> to screw up and testing is a hassle since it involves the wm. > > I wonder what the odds are of a patch a

Re: [dev] which versions are dwm patches intended to apply to cleanly?

2016-07-01 Thread Ben Woolley
Late reply to this, but I favor the git branch approach as you suggest. It is already a dependency, so why not use it for its intended purpose? The great thing about a branch is that it is easy to use the version the patch is for, and update as desired. The tools to manage the use cases around

Re: [dev] which versions are dwm patches intended to apply to cleanly?

2016-07-01 Thread FRIGN
On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 14:49:34 -0700 Ben Woolley wrote: Hey Ben, > Late reply to this, but I favor the git branch approach as you suggest. > It is already a dependency, so why not use it for its intended purpose? > > The great thing about a branch is that it is easy to use the version the > patch

Re: [dev] which versions are dwm patches intended to apply to cleanly?

2016-07-01 Thread Leo Gaspard
On 07/01/2016 08:39 PM, FRIGN wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 14:49:34 -0700 > Ben Woolley wrote: > > [...] >> Remember, git was originally created to solve the problem of concurrently >> managing many large patch sets from distributed sources. Isn't that the >> problem here? > > it's always the s

Re: [dev] which versions are dwm patches intended to apply to cleanly?

2016-07-01 Thread FRIGN
On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 21:05:09 -0700 Leo Gaspard wrote: Hey Leo, > Actually, I'd think if you give people push access to their patch branch > it may be easier for them than having to export a patch and update the > wiki: they already rebase the patches for themselves, they would just > have to git