<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 December 2011 19:01, Mattias Gaertner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nc-gaertnma@netcologne.de">nc-gaertnma@netcologne.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sat, 3 Dec 2011 17:46:49 +0000<br>
Frank Church <<a href="mailto:vfclists@gmail.com">vfclists@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> On 3 December 2011 15:48, Mattias Gaertner <<a href="mailto:nc-gaertnma@netcologne.de">nc-gaertnma@netcologne.de</a>>wrote:<br>
><br>
> > On Sat, 3 Dec 2011 16:15:24 +0100<br>
> > Bart <<a href="mailto:bartjunk64@gmail.com">bartjunk64@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > > Reported by lainz in the bugtracker:<br>
> > > <a href="http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=20799" target="_blank">http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=20799</a><br>
> ><br>
> > Please test.<br>
> ><br>
> > Mattias<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> I don't know how welcome or apt this comment may be as it appears to a<br>
> contentious issue, but it has been on my mind for some time.<br>
><br>
> Every now and then I see a message about trunk not compiling or some the<br>
> feature being broken.<br>
><br>
> I thought one of the reasons for proposing a change to Git or some other<br>
> distributed VCS is that you do all your work in your local branch, merge<br>
> with HEAD frequently and you only push your changes to the main repository<br>
> if everything works properly.<br>
> It is understood that features may get broken as it they are hard to test,<br>
> but shouldn't compilation succeed?<br>
<br>
</div>It compiled with 2.5.1 and 2.7.1.<br>
I copied the code from a place I thought I had tested with 2.4.5.<br>
Apparently I have buggy memory. Sorry for that.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
> This suggests work is being 'saved' to<br>
> the repository which shouldn't be the case.<br>
<br>
</div>Or it suggests that you need some more imagination.<br>
FPC is a very fast compiler, so I don't believe any one is committing<br>
without compiling first.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br></div></blockquote><div><br>I am not aiming to be critical as such. For a small of group of core updaters who are up to date on each others work it won't be problem, but occasional users do get bitten every now and then, especially if they need some new features in the LCL and other libraries.<br>
<br>I even thought of adding a note to Graeme not to jump in<img goomoji="330" style="margin: 0pt 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" src="cid:330@goomoji.gmail"><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">
> I am not proposing a change to git or other if core developers are content<br>
> with Subversion, I'd just want to know if it is a reflection of working<br>
> practices which may or may not be influenced by the choice of VCS and<br>
> methodologies surrounding its usage.<br>
<br>
</div>?<br>
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Mattias<br>
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