On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 17:55, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>
> Robert Haas wrote:
>> - we need to make sure that all the committers understand how to keep
>> the history the way we want it - i.e. linear, without merges, and
>> possibly even implement programmatic safeguards against doing anything
>> else
>>
>>
>>
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> That too will be part of my talk. I'm not sure how you would implement such
> programmatic safeguards, though. We don't have such a huge population of
> committers that we can't manage this by education, I think.
It's pretty trivial to block some of the most error-prone things. I
believe it's even in there as a sample somewhere. I thought you were
the one supposed to teach us this :-P
Anyway, I think it's worth putting in, at least the simple ones. It's
easier than cleaning up after a single mistake, most likely...
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