Re: support for bzr shelve/unshelve in vc-dir

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Re: support for bzr shelve/unshelve in vc-dir

From: Dan Nicolaescu

Subject: Re: support for bzr shelve/unshelve in vc-dir

Date: 2009年12月18日 07:39:59 -0800 (PST)

Martin Pool <address@hidden> writes:
 > 2009年12月11日 Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden>:
 > > This discussion started in part because of the perceived difficulty of
 > > getting a patch integrated to implement "bzr unshelve --keep"
 > > (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/492091)
 > 
 > I would be the first to agree that we have made it too hard to get
 > changes in in the past, and that while we are doing better now we can
 > still do more. However, I can't find any history with this particular
 > request, just a recently-filed bug?
I don't think that's the whole history here.
 > > bzr shelves are not very usable without this option, you can't go back
 > > and forth between shelved versions.
 > > The patch would change bzrlib/shelf_ui.py:Unshelver.from_args to set
 > > delete_shelf to False when "--keep" is passed. So about 3 lines total.
 > >
 > > Would such a patch need copyright assignment?
 > > Even if it does, given the above description, a bzr developer can
 > > reproduce the change needed in a few seconds...
 > > Can you please help get this solved?
 > 
 > Yes, it would need copyright assignment. We do this on every patch
 > because our legal opinion said that there is no globally-recognized
 > concept of "too small to copyright", and because we want to have clear
 > copyright. Many developers, both at Canonical and otherwise, have
 > given feedback that they think the FSF approach of saying "about a
 > paragraph" (or whatever it precisely is) is a reasonable commonsense
 > tradeoff..
FYI: the FSF policy is to require a copyright assignment from someone
that submits a number of small patches, so it's not possible to work
around the copyright requirement by splitting a larger change into many
smaller ones.
It looks like bzr unshelve --keep will make it into the next version,
thanks for taking care of it!

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