Progress toward Budget module

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 11:07:48PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net> writes:
> > BTW, is there any precedent for patches like this to be placed in some
> > sort of "patches in progress" area of CVS?  That way, they can be
> > versioned, easily retrieved, revised, and tested, with no impact on the
> > rest of the tree.
> 
> Nope.  The patches are either "good enough" to get committed to CVS,
> or they are not.  There's no in-between.
> 
> The two main conditions to get committed are:
> 1) The architecture needs to be "clean" and fit with the rest of the code, and
> 2) The resultant (patched) tree needs to compile and run.
> 
> Note that non-finished features are welcome (provided there is some
> hope that they WILL be finished "soon"), although it's "better" if
> the feature is finished before it's submitted.  YMMV.
> 

Do I understand correctly that the conditions to add a single file,
testing/try-my-patch.diff, to the CVS repository are the same as to commit
all of the changes contained in that diff to all of the various affected
files in the tree?

-chris
> 
> -derek
> 
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