svn commit: trunk/busybox: scripts

[Rob Landley]

On Wednesday 10 May 2006 2:45 pm, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> >I should make it run the test suite and show me the failures...
>
> You misunderstood what i said.
>
> To avoid to put stuff into the repository that you do not want to be
> checked in and to check if a given changeset is doing what it is
> supposed to do without relying on any other lingering changes, cp a
> clean checkout to a scratch-dir, apply the changeset you intend to put
> into the repo, build, test, and then check in this changeset out of the
> *scratch* copy.
>
> No chance that unwanted stuff ends up being checked in if you use a
> *separate* cp which *only* contains the one changeset you want to put in.

You were pointing out "make help" breakage and recommending I adopt a 
technique that wouldn't have caught the "make help" breakage.  This is why I 
was confused.

Rob
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