[PATCH 0 of 2] help: RST formatting

[Matt Mackall]

On Sun, 2012-05-20 at 19:32 +0200, Olav Reinert wrote:
> On 18. maj 2012, at 00.40, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > And that's just one of numerous reasons why such a big patch is a
> > non-starter. Others include lack of bisectability, and the inability of
> > the reviewer to accept good bits and send others back for rework.
> > 
> > Again, this really needs to be broken into several steps.
> 
> OK.
> 
> My motivation for making the patches the way they are was to submit
> coherent changes that introduce a tangible and meaningful change of
> behaviour to the system.  But I'm learning that that just isn't what
> you care about (the most).
> 
> I take it you don't mind receiving a string of small (reviewable and
> bisectable) patches containing only refactoring to prepare the
> introduction of change?

Exactly!

As I've actually spent much of the last week reminding various people of
these rules, I've made a wiki page that tries to summarize most of the
issues here:

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/OneChangePerPatch

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