Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Default version for star-merge

[Tom Lord]

    > From: address@hidden (James Blackwell)

    > I very recently taught a friend how to use arch. A day later, he came back
    > to me and essentially asked: Since star-merge is commonly used to merge
    > changes from the version you originally tagged from, why not make
    > the default version to star-merge the version you tagged from.


Another issue is that, commonly, the parent branch is tagged from
_something_ (such as tla-1.2 being tagged from tla-1.1) but merging
from that upstream is usually _not_ what's wanted.

-t