Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Merge problems with tla

[zander]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 01:04:15PM -0400, Miles Bader wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 06:39:41PM +0300, Momchil Velikov wrote:
> > Miles> Why should it be deprecated?  It seems like a coherent and
> > Miles> useful function...
> > 
> >   Unneeded maybe? Together with ``star-merge --refernce''.  Can't arch
> > track continuation chains until it finds the common ancestor all by
> > itself (what is what expected to happen in the first place).
> 
> Maybe star-merge doesn't need it, but other merging strategies may.  Since
> join-branch `makes sense' as a standalone function (to somebody that knows
> about patch-logs), it seems a bit premature to delete it just because
> star-merge doesn't need it...

If it is as similar to the 'cvs up -j' command as it sounds I suggest keeping
it; makes those people feel at home :-)

-- 
Thomas Zander

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