[Nix-dev] Re: new possible movement to git (?)

[shea at shealevy.com]

> Hi Shea,
>
>  > I don't think this accurately reflects the reasons we use
>  > stdenv-updates. We don't put it all in the same branch because more
>  > fine-grained branching is expensive, we put it all in the same branch
>  > because we want the eventual merge of the changes to happen at the
>  > same time.
>
> exactly who is "we"? Please speak for yourself. I, for one, do not want
> unrelated changes to be merged in one commit, because that habit breaks
> extremely useful tools such as "git bisect".
>
> Besides, having many different stdenv/* topic branches does not imply
> that each of them must be merged into master separately. You *can* merge
> them all at once, of course, if you want to. It just so happens that I
> wouldn't want to do that because the practice violates elementary
> principles software engineering.
>

Do you see why there are benefits, if not from a developer's perspective,
from an end-user perspective and from hydra's perspective to having
changes to stdenv be infrequent and more inclusive than is appropriate for
a generic feature branch?

>
> Take care,
> Peter
>
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