Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: missing & star-merge

[Milan Cvetkovic]

Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Milan Cvetkovic wrote:
>
> > I am not sure how to retrieve "18" without running "star-merge".
>
>
> replay $package-version--patch-18.  star-merge isn't the appropriate 
> tool for that. apply-delta can do pretty much anything if you don't mind 
>  a lot of typing.  ("apply-delta $package-version--patch-17 
> $package-version--patch-18" has the same effect as "replay 
> $package-version--patch-18")

OK, I know that, but it is not what I meant when I wrote "how to retrieve".

In other words, what is the way to find out the revision which is 
"common ancestry" for star-merge, which in example before I had assumed 
was patch-18 (or patch-20, when I look more ?)

I have a problem with star-merge that I don't know what it is going to 
do before I run it. I can go around it by running apply-delta and replay 
since I do know how they work, and their parameters are explicit.

But when I run star-merge, I have no clue where is 
"common-ancestry-revision".

example repeated:

i.e. if the above example is extend - say patch-20 is a merge from you,
replay will replay 12-16,18-23
replay --skip-present will do 12-16,18-19,21-23
replay --new will do 18-23
replay --new --skip-present will do 18-19,21-23


Thanks, Milan.
> Aaron