Re: [Monotone-devel] short-lived working directory branches

[Alvaro Herrera]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 01:29:41AM -0700, Vladimir Vukicevic wrote:

> My suggestion is to create some tools to let you deal with small,
> short-lived working directory branches. You could pick a file or one
> set of files and save them away with some tag name; a 'switch' command
> would switch a set of files to either another minibranch, or to the
> current heads of those files of the real monotone branch your WD is
> in.

I think this is more or less what "quilt" is supposed to help manage,
no?  I may be wrong but IIRC Andrew Morton wrote it to use it to handle
his kernel tree more or less on the way you describe.

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]surnet.cl>)
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