[ksh93-integration-discuss] Re: [osol-code] ksh93-integration prototype004 2007-01-27 webref+diff

[Jan Setje-Eilers]

 <45C3F491.2310C44C at nrubsig.org>Roland Mainz writes:
> Jan Setje-Eilers wrote:
> >  <45C2A0BE.48044342 at nrubsig.org>Roland Mainz writes:
> > > Jan Setje-Eilers wrote:
> > > > > The grub patches are baked into the sources already; I can't comment
> > > > > on why they continue to exist as separate entities.  Perhaps Jan can.
> > > >
> > > >  Since what was integrated had a fair amount of our own delta on top
> > > > of these patches, we wanted a copy of what we started with in the gate
> > > > as documentation.
> > >
> > > Ok... question: Why can't we do the same ? Is there a difference between
> > > *.diff and *.txt even if both are documentation (if it's just that the
> > > suffix *.diff is not welcome I can rename it... like *.ChMo or *.txt...
> > > :-) ) ?
> > 
> >  If I violated some rule by checking these in, and I can see how the
> > diffs are in fact dead code, then the fact that they are not cleaned
> > up yet shouldn't be used as an excuse to put more useless files into
> > the gate.
> 
> Umpf... in our case it's IMHO not useless. And I doubt your diff file
> was useless at the time it was checked in...
> 

 Actually neither I nor anyone I asked about it ever did end up going
back to it. So, so far it's been totally useless.

-jan