Re: Bazaar workflow for GRUB

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 09:51:21AM +0530, BVK Chaitanya wrote: > > I haven't seen anybody sending "bzr send" patches in the ML, so I > didn't want to introduce something new. Please don't let this stop you if you think "bzr send" is useful. Most of us are relatively new to Bazaar, so we might be

Re: Bazaar workflow for GRUB

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:48:56PM -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote: > > I mainly afraid of trunk checkouts because it tempts people to > actually make code changes directly in the checkout, I think this is fine for small changes. Bigger efforts can easily use a branch (either local or published) an

Re: Bazaar workflow for GRUB

2010-01-19 Thread Michal Suchanek
2010/1/19 Colin D Bennett : > On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:52:27 +0100 > Michal Suchanek wrote: > >> 2010/1/19 BVK Chaitanya : >> > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Colin D Bennett >> > wrote: >> >> >>> >> >>> # create a patch and send to mailing list >> >>> grub$ bzr diff -r submit: > ~/my-issue-fix.

Re: Bazaar workflow for GRUB

2010-01-19 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:52:27 +0100 Michal Suchanek wrote: > 2010/1/19 BVK Chaitanya : > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Colin D Bennett > > wrote: > > >>> > >>> # create a patch and send to mailing list > >>> grub$ bzr diff -r submit: > ~/my-issue-fix.diff > >> > >> Why not use “bzr send -o

Re: Bazaar workflow for GRUB

2010-01-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 09:57:07AM +0530, BVK Chaitanya wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > > I recommend using a checkout for trunk, because that way bzr takes out a > > write lock on the branch when you start committing and doesn't release > > it until it's finished;

Re: Bazaar workflow for GRUB

2010-01-19 Thread Michal Suchanek
2010/1/19 BVK Chaitanya : > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Colin D Bennett wrote: >>> >>> # create a patch and send to mailing list >>> grub$ bzr diff -r submit: > ~/my-issue-fix.diff >> >> Why not use “bzr send -o ~/my-issue-fix.patch” to create a merge >> directive+patch+revision bundle?  Th

Re: Bazaar workflow for GRUB

2010-01-18 Thread BVK Chaitanya
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > > I recommend using a checkout for trunk, because that way bzr takes out a > write lock on the branch when you start committing and doesn't release > it until it's finished; it also warns you immediately if you're out of > date rather than ma

Re: Bazaar workflow for GRUB

2010-01-18 Thread BVK Chaitanya
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Colin D Bennett wrote: >> >> * For Occasional Contributors >> >> This workflow is recommended for users/developers who want to fix >> just-one GRUB issue.  This involves a trunk checkout, some local >> commits (as necessary for fixing the issue) and sending the pa

Re: Bazaar workflow for GRUB

2010-01-18 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:15:37 + Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 09:49:15AM -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote: > > Do you want to mention how GRUB committers should merge features to > > the official trunk branch? I think the appropriate process, > > assuming (1) either a merge direct

Re: Bazaar workflow for GRUB

2010-01-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 09:49:15AM -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote: > Do you want to mention how GRUB committers should merge features to the > official trunk branch? I think the appropriate process, assuming > (1) either a merge directive or a feature branch provides the change > the we want to merg

Re: Bazaar workflow for GRUB

2010-01-18 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:01:41 +0530 BVK Chaitanya wrote: > Hi, > > > Attached is the initial version of workflow document for GRUB > contributions. I am yet to get right DVCS right, so I suspect it > might have minor differences from what other developers are following > already. > > Let me kn

Re: Bazaar workflow for GRUB

2010-01-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
BVK Chaitanya wrote: Attached is the initial version of workflow document for GRUB contributions. I am yet to get right DVCS right, so I suspect it might have minor differences from what other developers are following already. I can't comment on details, but thank you for this. It is very he

Bazaar workflow for GRUB

2010-01-14 Thread BVK Chaitanya
Hi, Attached is the initial version of workflow document for GRUB contributions. I am yet to get right DVCS right, so I suspect it might have minor differences from what other developers are following already. Let me know your comments. -- bvk.chaitanya GNU GRUB Workflow GNU GRUB project re