From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Incorrect merge
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:24:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvaalry711.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hbfzkdy3.fsf@telefonica.net> ("Óscar Fuentes"'s message of "Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:17:08 +0100")
>>> This is equivalent to saying that a change on common-fixes could depend
>>> on a change made to emacs-23 only.
>> How do you keep the branch up-to-date?
> AFAIK almost all changes to emacs-23 are eventually merged into
> trunk. This means that common-fixes would containt all changes intended
> to emacs-23, except those few which are not intended for trunk. This
> means that the divergence of emacs-23 from common-fixes will not be
> significant.
Another problem with your branch approach is that a patch applied
(mistakenly) to emacs-23 rather than to emacs-common would end up lost.
It's a lot easier to detect excess patches and lost patches.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-02 17:24 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
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 [this message]
2010-11-02 17:41 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-11-02 17:44 ` Davis Herring
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