On Thu, 4 Jun 2020, Joe Perches wrote: > On Thu, 2020-06-04 at 11:52 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > > Should Fixes also be used when the change will make it hard to port other > > fixes over it? > > If it's a logic defect or regression that's being fixed, > shouldn't the logic defect or regression be fixed as > reasonably soon as possible? Sure, but I recall seeing some patches that mentioned that the problem had existed since the beginning of git. Of course, it should be rare. > > The nature of the fix should ideally be optimal for > backporting, but I believe that should not stop any > consideration for the standalone fix itself. I'm not sure to follow this. Sometimes non-bug fixes that block backporting a bug fix have to be backported as well. So the fixes would again highlight the range of versions affected by the issue. julia > What do you think? > >
