Re: Are more and more patches getting lost lately?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 4, 2008, 09:00 UTC
Message-ID: <7v8wu85lqs.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080904172059.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>

Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> writes:

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> Quoting Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
>
>> Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> writes:
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>>> I noticed that recently there are many patches sent to the list
>>> that are left unapplied (and many of them are from you).  Many
>>> of them look useful or at least promising to become useful.
>>
>> Geez.  Well,... thanks.
>>
>> Do you have particular ones in the list that you really want to see
>> in-tree early, do you want all of them, or what?
>
> Your "diff --quiet" and Petr's bash completion.

I do not recall what the status of "diff --quiet" thing was when the discussion petered off. I'll have to dig it up later.

I've queued the bash completion from Pasky.

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> Also there are many patches that are from *you*.  Did you forget to apply
> them, are they buggy, or are they in any way bad?
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> From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable git rev-list to parse --quiet
> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:10:19 -0700
> Message-ID: <7vy73zd8ok.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
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> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/88994

Be reasonable -- that's more than 5 minutes ago.

'rev-list --check-empty $args' would be equivalent to 'test -z "$(rev-list -1 $args)"'; I am not interested in it myself, and original requestor went away. I have been assuming that it is not worth our time to worry about it if the change is not even necessary by somebody who brought it up originally.

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> From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> Subject: [PATCH/RFC] feeding Maildir to git-am
> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:25:57 -0700
> Message-ID: <7vbpzotfyy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
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> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/92963

I wanted to see more positive feedback or better alternatives from people who do deal with Maildir, especially because I do not use Maildir anywhere. Again, the discussion seems to have petered out, so...

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> From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> Subject: Re* [PATCH] git-apply - Add --include=PATH
> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:05:31 -0700
> Message-ID: <7vhc99h644.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
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> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/93604

IIRC, the patch was in a good shape but without documentation and tests. I suspect reassembling the pieces from the mailing list archive into an appliable e-mail submission would have been trivial, if somebody cared deeply enough, but nothing came out of it.