BTS patches (was Re: [PATCH] dirstate:)

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 17:56, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> That's a start. The next piece is to have someone regularly looking for
> those patches, and I think that ends up being a harder piece as it's not
> interrupt driven.

I do this sometimes when I'm bored, which happens semi-regularly...

> Which reminds me, we should have a "bug-stomping party" sometime soon.
> That is, get together on IRC for a day and focus on resolving as many
> bugs as possible.

Bug-stomping sounds nice, though we may want to wait until September,
as many people might be AFK for holidays.

Somewhat related: I saw your conversation about diff -w and how it has
known bugs, and this has come up with a Mozillans a lot, as well. I
already spent some time looking at that stuff earlier because I wanted
to use that myself, but I checked again this morning, and it seems
like the whitespace cleaning is only effectively used in the case
where two versions are exactly the same save for the whitespace
differences. It is not at all used when blocks of lines are sent to
the bdiff C module, leading me to believe this was lost in the
translation to C. There is some discussion of a fix in issue127.

Cheers,

Dirkjan