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Re: Incorrect merge


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Incorrect merge
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:22:35 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>>> In Python, they have a script called svnmerge.py.  This script did
>>> many things, one of them was to keep track of blocked revisions, ie,
>>> revisions that should not be merged to trunk (or to some given branch,
>>> IIRC).
>> Indeed, the only way I can think of to try and make sure such undesired
>> merges don't happen is to try and encode this fact into a merge
>> script.
> The *only* way? What abut having a branch for that purpose?

It's difficult enough to make sure patches get installed in the right
(emacs-23 or trunk) branch and to keep them in sync, that adding another
branch would just add to the work.
Using an ad-hoc script on the other hand would *reduce* the work.

> BTW, do you realize that the script would end cherry-picking commits and
> that bzr has no support for tracking cherry-picks? This way it is not
> possible to easily track commits across branches.

Of course that would end up doing cherry-picking, so what?
We already do that by hand, so doing in from a script can't be worse.


        Stefan



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