From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Incorrect merge
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:47:25 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y69aj1bm.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k4kuhpaf.fsf@telefonica.net>
Óscar Fuentes writes:
> One thing is to resort to cherry-picking when some exceptional condition
> is detected, and another thing is to use cherry-picking as a tool for an
> ordinary task.
No, from the point of view of history consistency they're the same.
Cross-branch histories aren't "a little bit inconsistent"; they're
consistent or they're not. In the first case you can depend on tools
like Bazaar and git to DTRT, and in the latter you can't.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-03 7:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-01 13:48 Incorrect merge Ken Brown
2010-11-01 15:46 ` Chong Yidong
2010-11-01 16:02 ` Chong Yidong
2010-11-01 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-01 20:21 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-11-01 20:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-01 22:19 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-11-02 1:50 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-11-02 14:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-02 15:57 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-11-02 16:45 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-11-02 17:14 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-11-02 18:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-11-02 18:56 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-11-02 20:25 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-11-02 20:44 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-11-03 5:22 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-11-03 6:46 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-11-03 7:44 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-11-03 13:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-04 20:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-05 9:30 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-11-05 11:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-08 16:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-03 6:52 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-11-03 7:47 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2010-11-02 17:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-02 17:37 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-11-02 18:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-02 19:19 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-11-02 21:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-01 23:02 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-11-02 1:29 ` Jason Rumney
2010-11-02 5:16 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-11-02 9:16 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-11-02 14:17 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-11-02 17:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-02 17:41 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-11-02 17:44 ` Davis Herring
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