[arch-general] [PATCH 01/48] Bashification of initscripts

Victor Lowther victor.lowther at gmail.com
Wed Jul 7 08:40:32 EDT 2010


On Jul 6, 2010, at 11:25 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> If there was one thing I wasn't so fond of in these patches, it seemed
> like there were too many.

Some people like larger patches, some like smaller ones. It is easier  
to merge smaller ones together than it is to split larger ones apart.

> The beauty of git is the ability to go back
> and squash and split patches in a way that makes a lot more sense to
> others- it might not have been the way or order you did things in, but
> you should try as hard as possible to make a commit the largest
> logical unit that makes sense, but still small enough to grasp fully.

Ya, I wanted to get feedback to see if the larger Arch community was  
interested before going too much farther.

>
> If there are ever closely-related changes strewn across multiple
> patches in a patch set, you should probably think about merging those
> commits.
>
> -Dan


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