[Gnu-arch-users] Sub-optimal ordering of rev-building in star-merge

[Stefan Monnier]

I did a 

  tla star-merge --three-way ...

which was meant to apply the changes in a branch between patch 135 and 142.
My revlib had rev 59 of that branch, so tla did:

- Aha the latest is 142, so let's built that.
- Aha the common ancestor is 135 so let's build that.

Since the second came after the first, 142 was build from 59 by applying
patches 60->142, while 135 was built from 59 as well by applying patch
60->135.
Obviously, in this case the two steps should have been done in the
opposite order.  This was with tla-1.2


        Stefan "who still hasn't managed to create a brand new archive
                with `tla import'"