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On 2014-01-16 13:48, John Griffith wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
> 
> A review came up today that cherry-picked a specific commit to OSLO
> Incubator, without updating the rest of the files in the module.  I
> rejected that patch, because my philosophy has been that when you
> update/pull from oslo-incubator it should be done as a full sync of
> the entire module, not a cherry pick of the bits and pieces that you
> may or may not be interested in.
> 
> As it turns out I've received a bit of push back on this, so it seems
> maybe I'm being unreasonable, or that I'm mistaken in my understanding
> of the process here.  To me it seems like a complete and total waste
> to have an oslo-incubator and common libs if you're going to turn
> around and just cherry pick changes, but maybe I'm completely out of
> line.
> 
> Thoughts??

I suppose there might be exceptions, but in general I'm with you.  For 
one thing, if someone tries to pull out a specific change in the Oslo 
code, there's no guarantee that code even works.  Depending on how the 
sync was done it's possible the code they're syncing never passed the 
Oslo unit tests in the form being synced, and since unit tests aren't 
synced to the target projects it's conceivable that completely broken 
code could get through Jenkins.

Obviously it's possible to do a successful partial sync, but for the 
sake of reviewer sanity I'm -1 on partial syncs without a _very_ good 
reason (like it's blocking the gate and there's some reason the full 
module can't be synced).

-Ben