Hello, On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 07:19:47AM +0100, [email protected] wrote: > On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 06:13:47PM +0200, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > > > I think I have an extra argument for the second way: if I create a > > separate commit before the merge, things will stop working, > > Yeah, you are right: you can't adapt the build system of the main Hurd > tree before merging in the directory; and you can't merge the directory > in without adapting the build system in the main Hurd... I forgot that > adapting the build system requires changes in the global tree, not only > in the subdirectory in question.
Indeed; I forgot this detail, too. > > and, as you once said, a commit is a set of changes after which > > everything works :-) > > Indeed. The established term for this is "bisectability" -- I just > didn't know it at the time :-) Aha, great :-) I'll keep this in mind, thank you :-) Regards, scolobb
