From 981990db4e05494a6a4f930e42078082ac527dfc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Niedermayer 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 babf35e..71b94b8 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 -- 2.7.4