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Subject: Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin
From: Wayne Scott <wscott@bitmover.com>
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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
> If so, what you are describing is called "hacking" in the negative
> sense of the word, and what my customers do is called "programming".
> It's quite rare to see the sort of mess that you described, it happens,
> but it is rare.  I don'tknow how else to explain it, but it is not the
> norm in the professional world to try a zillion different approaches
> and revision control each and every one.
> 
> The norm is:
> 	clone a repository
> 	edit the files
> 	modify/compile/debug until it works
> 	check in
> 	push the patch up the shared repository

Or they create do a line of development in a repository with commits
and then determine that it wasn't working.  No problem throw it away
and start over from a clean copy.  Since the repositories are
distributed, private branches just disappear if you don't like them.

-Wayne
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