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Subject: Re: [SCM TRANSITION] Re: Proposal: move Randr protocol and library
From: Daniel Stone <daniel () freedesktop ! org>
Date: 2006-04-19 6:35:46
Message-ID: 20060419063546.GF12242 () amnesiac ! heapspace ! net
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On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 08:33:05AM +0200, Egbert Eich wrote:
> Adam Jackson writes:
> > Honestly, having just bumped every video driver to account for the new ABI,
> > the marginal cost of having to do so over multiple SCMs is trivial compared
> > to the base cost of having to do so for each of 60+ drivers.
>
> At least with CVS as currently set up you can do this all with one commit.
> This is because drivers/ is the super module of all individual drivers.
> If the changes are related - as in your case - this should not be considered
> a policy violation.
I, for one, would very much like it if it were.
> The only additional work required is to modify the ChangeLogs of each driver.
> This can be automated by hacking the prepate-Changelog.pl script.
> Apart from this there is no more work than in a situation where we kept a
> number of drivers in a single module.
If you're scripting the changelog anyway, why not just script the
commits? It's a trivial leap.
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