[Gnu-arch-users] Re: microbranches: prism-merge vs multi-merge

[Miles Bader]

Florian Weimer <address@hidden> writes:
> Is there some fix to make the branches "micro" again?  If development
> continues for some time, they wil accumulate patches from the upstream
> branch, which means that branches aren't really *that* cheap.

The `obvious' way would be to re-tag from the upstream branch instead of
merging from it, but I've always been afraid to do this, as you always
hear about problems with mixed commit/tag branches.

Anyone try?

-Miles
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