From 981990db4e05494a6a4f930e42078082ac527dfc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:38:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] patches should be split into incremental changes if possible
add patch split reasoning suggest asking on ffmpeg-dev if theres doubt about
spliting (and like always if any developer disagrees say so and ill revert
this and we can disscuss it on ffmpeg-dev)
Originally committed as revision 8412 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
---
doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi b/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi
index babf35e8109..71b94b83bbd 100644
--- a/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi
+++ b/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi
@@ -1492,7 +1492,13 @@ please use av_log() instead.
reported and eventually fixed.
@item
Do not commit unrelated changes together, split them into self-contained
- pieces.
+ pieces. Also dont forget that if part B depends on part A but A doesnt
+ depend on B, then A can and should be commited first and seperately from B.
+ Keeping changes well split into self contained parts makes reviewing and
+ understanding them on svn log at the time of commit and later when
+ debugging a bug much easier.
+ Also if you have doubt about spliting or not spliting, dont hesitate to
+ ask/disscuss it on the developer mailing list.
@item
Do not change behavior of the program (renaming options etc) without
first discussing it on the ffmpeg-devel mailing list. Do not remove
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