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[Christian Convey <christian.convey@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Igor,

So is the basic rule: if MariaDB developers have modified a file in
bzr since summer 2009, then I can assume that file belongs to MariaDB
and won't be automatically over-written by the next MySQL release?

- Christian

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Igor Babaev <igor@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 02/19/2013 04:59 PM, Christian Convey wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> As I work through the Coverity Scan results of MariaDB's trunk, I find
>> myself having to research what some functions do, and the meanings of
>> their parameters and return values.  Rather than just recording what I
>> learn on a piece of paper, I thought it might be nice to write Doxygen
>> comments for some of those functions / structs / etc.  That way,
>> perhaps other persons trying to learn the code base could benefit.
>>
>> Here's the problem.  Based on Monty's blog posting about MariaDB 10
>> vs. MySQL 5.6 ( http://blog.mariadb.org/mariadb-10-0-and-mysql-5-6/ ),
>> it's not obvious to me which files / functions / etc. in MariaDB have
>> been forked from MariaDB, vs. which ones will be replaced with the
>> corresponding MySQL code when the next MySQL release comes out.  This
>> means that when I write Doxygen comments for a given file / function
>> /struct / etc., I don't know whether to submit that comment patch to
>> the MariaDB project or to the MySQL project.
>>
>> Does anyone know I I can figure that out?
>
> See in bzr who committed the patch and when the patch was committed.
> MariaDB developers started committing their patches mainly in
> summer/fall 2009 (there are some earlier patches from Kristian, Monty,
> Sanja and, maybe, from Sergey Petrunia)
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Christian
>>
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