[SCM] ardour3/master: Droped obsolete patches.

Jaromír Mikeš mira.mikes at gmail.com
Sun Sep 8 09:52:44 UTC 2013


2013/9/8 Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>

> Quoting Jaromír Mikeš (2013-09-08 08:00:03)
>


> > Ops sorry ... waf.patch shouldn't be removed but renamed to
> 0001-waf.patch
> > ... I didn't push new file :(
>
> Better IMO to avoid renaming, to ease locating patches by reading
> changelog.
>
> Here are some advices about patch naming/numbering:
>
>   * Use the patch naming micro policy, and include its README.
>   * When adding a patch, mention its number and purpose in changelog.
>   * When dropping a patch, mention at least its number.
>   * If renumbering (if you really must), mention old and new number.
>   * Mention numbers explicitly (not e.g. ranges) to ease grep'ing.
>

Hi Jonas,

I agree with all. I am big fan of numbered patches.
Just I think that renumbering is harmless in this case because package is
unreleased and changelog is clean.

mira
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