From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26729 invoked by alias); 18 Mar 2003 18:21:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 26706 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2003 18:21:30 -0000 To: Jonathan Larmour Cc: John Dallaway , ecos-maintainers@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Proposal for processing patches for the eCos 2.0 branch References: <200303180848.24682.jld@ecoscentric.com> <1047995318.7459.2925.camel@hermes.chez-thomas.org> <200303181605.21189.jld@ecoscentric.com> <3E775627.8090803@eCosCentric.com> From: Nick Garnett Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 18:21:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <3E775627.8090803@eCosCentric.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-03/txt/msg00014.txt.bz2 Jonathan Larmour writes: > > Oh, and a cvs diff command to run is as good as a pointer to > ecos-patches IMHO. i.e. "cvs diff -D date1 -D date2 > somepackage". It'll be obvious from the rationale and the date what > the ecos-patches message is if anyone's interested to look at the > original. The diff is more useful than the ecos-patches mail, because > many (contributed) patches are changed somewhat before committing; and > sometimes you need multiple patches anyway. I don't like this. I, and maybe others, have limited ability to run commands against the CVS repository. I would much prefer to be able to fetch the diff out of an email, either here or in ecos-patches. If the proposal is significantly different from the ecos-patches message, it should be included again. -- Nick Garnett eCos Kernel Architect http://www.ecoscentric.com/ The eCos and RedBoot experts