Re: Bug tracker and transplants

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

2011/4/1 John W. Eaton <address@hidden>:
> On  1-Apr-2011, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>
> | On 1 April 2011 14:06, Rik <address@hidden> wrote:

> | > As far as I understand it, the version field is extra
> | > information, like the operating system, that helps to narrow
> | > down where a bug might lie.  I don't think it's being used in
> | > the way you suggest (to track which bugs need to be
> | > transplanted).
> |
> | Would I be entirely too repetitive if I insist that it would be
> | better to avoid these problems by patching on stable and merging
> | the patches onto default?
>
> Well, you are pretty repetitive about this topic...
>
> But you are probably also right about what we should be doing.
>
> Before we can switch to doing what you suggest, I would like to
> understand what will happen in the following cases:

This is what the hg pros had to say about it:

     
http://mercurial.808500.n3.nabble.com/Suggested-workflow-for-Octave-td2768774.html

Greg Ward's response seems particularly detailed.

HTH,
- Jordi G. H.