Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Potential flaw in patch-log pruning in proposal

[Thomas Lord]

    > From: Samuel Tardieu <address@hidden>

    > Thomas> Submission branches are (revisioned) changesets against a
    > Thomas> well-defined mainline.  That implies some constraints on how a
    > Thomas> submission branch is sanely used.  If they want something that
    > Thomas> is 'mainling + some-unmerged-submission-branches' they can
    > Thomas> constuct such an entity by paying attention to '=merges'.

    > Tom, you usually pay high attention to design and details. Does this
    > really look like an efficient process to you? To me, it looks like you
    > impose a very heavy process to tla developers which discourages
    > experiments, as forks[1] from tla will have a very hard time keeping
    > up with already merged submission branches.


Submission branches should make forks which cerrypick features not yet
merged into mainline should be /easier/, not harder to maintain.

-t