Re: [Gnu-arch-users] recent changes in address@hidden, and star-merge and update/replay defaults

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 16:13, Colin Walters wrote:
> > When there are tags more recent than base-0.   
> 
> Why would you do this?  Wouldn't you lose all the changes from previous
> revisions?  

Yes, and thats the point. If you hack on feature X, it gets accepted
upstream, and you want to reset your branch, you have three choices:
1) star-merge in a patch of size X.
2) sync-tree it, getting a patch of size X.
3) retag it from the upstream, getting a patch of a few K.

3 can lead to considerable savings over the long term. And it's the same
as 2) from a loss of local changes perspective. And you don't want local
changes because they've just been merged.

Rob
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