Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] microbranches: prism-merge vs multi-merge

[Miles Bader]

On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 05:20:01PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> One way to do that would be to have a command like
> 
>     % tla commit --base address@hidden/toto--titi--3.4
> 
> which would do the same as
> 
>     % tla commit
> 
> except that the new revision would be a continuation of
> address@hidden/toto--titi--3.4.

I've never used `larch' (the wonky shell-script predecessor to tla), but I
seem to recall it actually had something like `larch commit --continuation',
and in fact, that was how you made tags (no `tag' command).

I'd really like something like this, but I'm still nervous about how the
result would interact with merging commands; for instance, if I was in the
habit of star-merging from branch A to branch B, and then commited such a
`continuation' changeset to A, what would happen the next time I star-merged
from A to B?

-Miles
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