[Mailman-Users] VCSing your local changes [was: Mailman CSRF Vulnerability]

[Lindsay Haisley]

On Fri, 2018-01-12 at 13:04 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Lindsay Haisley writes:
> 
>  > Probably what I'm talking about.
> 
> Hmm...  This is a good sign!
> 
>  > I only partially understand this, Mark. I'll need to sit down and
> study
>  > it. Thanks!
> 
> Do it soon:  it's as easy as you think it is!  Modern VCSes are good
> at this.  "VCS means never having to say 'I'm fscked'."[1]  Branches
> solve everything!  Having a remote branch for backup is a great idea,
> by the way.

Actually, in the short run, I've consolidated all my patches into a
tarball with a Makefile, which gets the job done. Yes, VCS would be
better.

> 
> Footnotes: 
> [1]  As long as you avoid "rm -rf ." while you have unpushed changes.

We don't go there !!!!!

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