[Gnu-arch-users] Re: missing & star-merge

[Stig Brautaset]

On May 05 2004, Jani wrote:
> I don't know in what case --new and --skip-present behave differently in
> replay.

My guess is that --new only applies the patches that are newer than the
last patch in the current tree. So, if you've cherry-picked patch-17 but
are missing patches 12-16 & 18-23, --new will replay only 18-23, but
--skip-present will replay all missing patches.

Stig
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