Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Jan 2002 11:00:24 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin |
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > > And you just lost some useful information. > > No. If the useless crap ends up hiding the real points in the revision > history, getting rid of crud is _good_.
Actually, allowing the deep merges to go past tags could be useful for dragging bugfixes between the 2.4 and 2.5 kernels ...
... but I think the 'dragging' analogy is something we'll want to keep here, not back merging across tags by default but _trying_ to do the backmerge on demand only, when the user wants to drag a changeset from 2.4 to 2.5.
We could just have a revtool-like interface for that.
regards,
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