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

Victor Lowther victor.lowther at gmail.com
Sun Jul 11 09:12:26 EDT 2010


On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 14:26 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Am 11.07.2010 14:20, schrieb Victor Lowther:
> > Going back through and rewriting the patch series to do that will be
> > jsut about as much effort as creating the original one was.  If I had
> > know that was what your preference was, I would have written it that
> > way to begin with.  Since the end result is going to be the same once
> > the patch series is applied, though, I don't really see the point of
> > making modifications beyond bugfixes.
> 
> It is a matter of keeping the history readable. And it is simple: Just
> create a new branch based on master, cherry-pick the commits that do
> nothing but change [ to [[ and git merge --squash that branch into a new
> one.

If that is all you wnat done, that is easy enough to do.  If you want
all of the instances of trivial bashification split out from where I
reworked the logic in the same patch, that is much less easy.

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Victor Lowther
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