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Re: Release branch plans


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Release branch plans
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:44:49 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.94 (gnu/linux)

>> >> But that depends on not forgetting to install it on both sides,
>> >> which is error prone and is more work than installing only once on
>> >> the release branch and merging later since merging can be batched
>> >> and largely automated.
>> > How is it more error prone or more work?
>> I think that's pretty obvious: more error prone because you have to
>> remember to do it
> We could let bzrmerge.el "remember" to do it, can't we?

bzrmerge does something completely different.

>> and more work because it can't be batched (i.e. it's 2*N work, as
>> opposed to N+M where M is the number of times you decide to "merge
>> from branch").
> That's more work for the machine, not for the human, I think.

No, I'm talking about more work for the human.
In any case my decision is made on this matter.


        Stefan



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