Re: [Gnu-arch-users] merge trouble

[David Allouche]

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 20:34 -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Tom Lord wrote:
> > Will you please elaborate?   Without referring to old conversations
> > we had long ago: what is wrong with the `--forward' option?
> 
> Its granularity is too large.  It either applies the entire patch, or 
> ignores the entire patch.  It doesn't just ignore already-applied hunks.

That and the fact the way it was used in tla actually disabled the
(useless to tla) --forward functionality, so the --forward option to tla
is actually without observable effect.

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