[webkit-dev] Patch process - let's make it better

[David Kilzer]

On Saturday, July 11, 2009 11:55:36 AM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

> On Jul 11, 2009, at 9:39 AM, Darin Adler wrote:
> 
> > On Jul 10, 2009, at 4:23 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> > 
> >> Perhaps we should make update-webkit (or some new wrapper type tool)
> >> run resolve-ChangeLogs automatically.
> > 
> > Dave Kilzer had the same idea when he created resolve-ChangeLogs,
> > so update-webkit does run resolve-ChangeLogs automatically. See 
> > from October 2007.
> 
> I guess the reason I hadn't noticed is that I often to "svn update" to update 
> only the directory I'm working on. Maybe we need an update-subtree command.


Why don't you update your whole source directory at once?  I would think that updating only subdirectories could make the source tree out-of-sync and cause build problems later.

Dave