Re: Requirements gathering for new package source control

["Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand inf utfsm cl>]

Kevin Kofler <kevin kofler chello at> wrote:
> Christoph Höger <choeger <at> cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:
> > It would be a great thing, if I could control all that from my own
> > versioned repository copy with some 'make <USUAL_STEP>' commands and
> > finally merge my changes back especially when testing builds for
> > multiple releases.

> Why don't you just commit the changes even if  you don't know yet whether
> they build?   Especially  for  a small   package where   you're  the sole
> maintainer, it won't really matter if CVS HEAD isn't always buildable.

If you want do be able to do something like "git bisect" (sorry for the SCM
mention) it is very useful if each (official, public) development point at
least builds OK.
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