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[Michael Widenius <monty@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

>>>>> "Toby" == Toby Thain <toby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Toby> On 8-May-09, at 1:45 AM, Kristian Nielsen wrote:

>> Kristian Nielsen <knielsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>>> I suggest you re-commit all of the changes as a single commit  
>>> (this is
>>> generally preferred in Maria development), or at least add a good  
>>> commit
>>> message (eg. mention fixing the BUILD/ scripts). Also, you should  
>>> add per-file
>>> commit messages; one way to do this I know of is using the `bzr  
>>> gcommit`
>>> plugin (I personally do not like per-file commit messages much,  
>>> but in Maria
>>> development they are generally preferred).
>> 
>> You asked on IRC what I meant with 're-commit'.
>> 
>> There are at least two ways: ...
>> 
>> 2. Use `bzr uncommit` to remove the previous commits (but not the  
>> related
>> changes) in your tree, then do a new commit:
>> 
>> cd my-original-tree
>> bzr uncommit -r2697
>> # You can do any additional changes you want here
>> 

Toby> I have uncommit'd the last 4 of my local commits, but unfortunately  
Toby> gcommit is not available to me as I am doing this work on a headless  
Toby> server. I am not aware of any way this can be done on the command  
Toby> line (I did check #bzr and Google). Do you mind if I omit per-file  
Toby> remarks in this push?

In this case it's ok to only have a good global commit message.

Thanks a lot for the help and for the information regarding the
changes!

Regards,
Monty