[PATCH] notmuch restore --accumulate

Thomas Schwinge thomas at schwinge.name
Fri Sep 9 10:22:49 PDT 2011


Hi!

On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 12:13:06 -0400, Austin Clements <amdragon at mit.edu> wrote:
> The idea behind sending the test first is that people can see that it fails
> and that the subsequent patch indeed fixes it.  What I find works well is to
> submit the test case with the test marked as broken and then the main patch,
> including the change to un-mark it as broken.

Ah, that's indeed a good approach for bug fixes (and it also preserves
git bisect compatibility), but still: why separate patches for new
functionality?  (I'm not trying to be a pain here, but would like to
understand your rationale behind this.)


Grüße,
 Thomas
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