[Mageia-sysadm] Initscripts - Migrating to git and regenerating mdkconf.patch and further Mageia tweaks.

D.Morgan dmorganec at gmail.com
Fri Oct 21 15:29:27 CEST 2011


On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Thierry Vignaud
<thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 October 2011 14:24, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
>>> Don't you think attaching a file rather than pasting 1000+ lines of log
>>> woud be more friendly to other people?
>>
>> It's only 700 lines not 1000+,
>
> I don't know how you count but I count 1023 lines between first
> "git remote add mga" until last "initscripts-9.31-1 -> initscripts-9.31-1"
> (for a grand total of 1122 lines)
>
> But even if it was 700, that would still be too big
>
>> and the mail would be the same size
>> regardless (well bigger with the header overhead of the attachment), so
>> I'm not sure why it's more considerate...
>
> Well there is: I'd to scroll down your 1000+ lines just to see if
> there was anything
> else after the logs...
> If it would have been a log file, I wound't have to.
>
>> Also if you want to refer/quote to specific parts of the push (as I did
>> in my other reply) then including inline is better and more considerate.
>> This is pretty much common practice for patch reviews etc (to allow
>> inline quoting).
>
> We don't speak about patch review but about repeteaed contents over
> 1000+ lines.
>
> This is off topic BS.
> Of those 1000+ lines, 814 were the same sendmail message again & again!
> What's the point of repeating it over 800+ lines?
> If someone was interesting in "reviewing" them, having 5 lines
> would have been enough.
>
>> So it really depends on different peoples' definition of $CONSIDERATE.
>
> Come on...

i think we can stop on this, this is a minor issue. The valuable infos
are the infos about how coling created the git repo, handled it, ..


Btw,  coling thanks for all this.

PS: someone know how to make new git repo to appear on gitweb ? i
commited in puppet to enable it but still nothing on the gitweb even
after some hours of wait .


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