PHP PEAR CVS 17 RE PEAR CVS CVS PHP SRC PEAR CONSOLE GETOPT PHP
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 00:48:48 -0400

Subject: Re: [PEAR-CVS] cvs: php-src /pear/Console Getopt.php
From: jon@no-spam (Jon Parise)

On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 04:01:49PM +0300, Jani Taskinen wrote:

> >> MFH?! (same for those install fixes..)
> >
> >I'll MFH everything once. There are still pending commits and this is a > >*real* pain to sync everything 10 times per day ;-).
> > Well, I can't test the changes on PHP_4_3 branch unless you MFH them, can I?

> It maybe 'pain' to sync them but you still should do it always after you > commit to HEAD, otherwise there's big chance that you forget about it.
> That's why I tend to remind people to MFH..
The counter argument is that fresh changes should "breath" a little bit in HEAD before being backported into a stable branch. That would prevent additional commits made to correct typos / oversights / etc.
from having to be made to the stable branch, as well.

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