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

[James Blackwell]

>     > 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.
 
Tom Lord:
> 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.

I think you have a good point. I'd figure though that changes in 1.2 are
likely to be changes to the core of software that impact either
stability or reliability, which are likely changesets taht you want to
drag into 1.3 anyways.

But yeah, I think this is probably a good enough point to kill the idea.
How about (pulling from a ships-in-the-night post) star-merge --parent?



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