Michael Olson <mwolson@gnu.org> writes:

>> Do you apply a tag in that case in order to identify the file
>> revisions if somebody has a bug report or support request referring
>> to the ERC version in Emacs or do you just use the files in Emacs
>> directly for testing and debugging?
>
> No.  I can get changes for any revision that I commit at any time, so
> there isn't a need for making tags.  I use DVC
> (http://download.gna.org/dvc/) to easily fetch changes: it gives me a
> listing of patches that I've committed, and I only need to hit "=" to
> view the one at point in diff form.
>
> I usually do debugging in the erc--main branch, because the versions
> are consistent enough that problems should be replicable there.  If
> needed, I could easily just remove the (add-to-list 'load-path ...)
> line for ERC from my config, and work in Emacs directly, calling
> sync-from-emacs when I've fixed the problem (to propagate to
> erc--emacs--22), and so on.

Additionally, I should add that I keep a checkout of each branch in
its own directory.  For example: erc/emacs22 (erc--emacs--22),
erc/arch (erc--main--0), erc/arch-5.1 (erc--rel--5.1).  This makes it
very easy to do sanity checks (diff -u against two directories) to
make sure that every desired change has been merged.

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