From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
To: Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU>
Cc: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: "obvious" requirements
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 17:56:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.55.0305201922150.44542@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030520163654.GA16094@ceres.cs.mu.oz.au>
On Wed, 21 May 2003, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> On 20-May-2003, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
>> "anal" is not a vulgarity, but a reference to Sigmund Freud's ideas on
>> anality, first published in 1908. Freud wrote that people with "anal
>> character" were meticulous, parsimonious, and obstinate.
This may be related to me living less than 10km away from Berggasse 16 and
Andrew living near London (IIRC) ;-), but I don't see a problem either.
Even more so considering that it's not in the manual but one of the
web pages for those with GCC CVS write access, and has been there for
nearly five years:
revision 1.3 of checkin.html
date: 1998/07/05 22:37:42; author: law; state: Exp; lines: +8 -2
Note not to modify the guile subdir. Also note certain changes that do
not need approval for checkins.
I have, however, installed the following clarification below for now.
Gerald
Index: cvswrite.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/cvswrite.html,v
retrieving revision 1.52
diff -u -3 -p -r1.52 cvswrite.html
--- cvswrite.html 26 Mar 2003 21:18:35 -0000 1.52
+++ cvswrite.html 20 May 2003 17:48:14 -0000
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ in the MAINTAINERS file in the GCC distr
<p>Also note that fixes for obvious typos in ChangeLog files, docs,
web pages, comments and similar stuff need not be approved. Just
-check in the fix. We don't want to get overly anal about checkin
+check in the fix. We don't want to get overly anal-retentive about checkin
policies.</p>
<p>When you have checked in a patch exactly as it has been approved,
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-20 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-19 0:38 Matt Kraai
2003-05-19 10:35 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2003-05-19 15:07 ` Matt Kraai
2003-05-20 12:01 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2003-05-20 14:12 ` Kelley Cook
2003-05-20 16:14 ` Andrew Haley
2003-05-20 16:43 ` Fergus Henderson
2003-05-20 17:56 ` Gerald Pfeifer [this message]
2003-05-20 22:58 Robert Dewar
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