Re: [Gnu-arch-users] =partner-versions

[Aaron Bentley]

Miles Bader wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 03:37:21PM -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:

> > My merge script 
> > will keep trying to merge from each partner-version until it succeeds. 
>
>
> What does `succeed' mean?

I mean 'change the target tree'.

> What if multiple partners have mergeable stuff?  

It will stop after the first merge that changed the target tree.

> Will it merge all?  Just the first?


> [BTW, what's `merge' in this context?  star-merge?   Will it return a
> non-zero exit status if nothing got merged?]

Star-merge.  I hadn't thought about exit status, because I didn't expect 
it to be used by scripts.  So I really don't know.

> > My missing-merge script will list all missing revisions from all partners.
>
>
> What's the output format (the default `missing' format is ambiguous in this
> case)?

It uses the -f and -s options.  I considered showing the 
fq-package-version as a heading, but I didn't want it showing up if 
there was nothing missing from that version.

Aaron
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Aaron Bentley
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