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From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	cyd@gnu.org, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Repairing the elpa branch
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:33:08 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pq16796z.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvvcayftve.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

Stefan Monnier writes:

 > >> Yes, you see merges, but they are from rewritten branches (with
 > >> different revids), so they're useless when you try to sync up with the
 > >> upstream branch because there's no common ancestor any more.
 > > This will happen with _any_ rewriting.
 > 
 > No: not if the rewrite only rewrites the mainline and not the branches.

AFAICS, for "recent" branches (including those that have been recently
sync'ed to mainline by merging from mainline), either they get
rewritten, or they get chopped off the mainline.

Reminds me of C. P. Snow's Three Laws of Thermodynamics.




  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-15 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-14  3:25 Repairing the elpa branch Glenn Morris
2013-01-14  4:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-14  4:26   ` Chong Yidong
2013-01-14 15:15     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-14 15:40     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-14 17:10       ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-14 17:22         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-14 17:28           ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-14 17:54             ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-14 18:13               ` Andreas Schwab
2013-01-14 19:16                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-15  1:38       ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-15  3:59         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-15  4:05           ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-15  9:02             ` Andreas Schwab
2013-01-15 13:39               ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-15 15:33                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2013-01-15 16:26                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-15 17:38                   ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-15 18:45                     ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-15 18:55                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-15 20:21                         ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-15 22:13                       ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-14 17:09   ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-15  1:44     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-15  4:16     ` Glenn Morris

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