Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: -L option for tag?

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Tom Lord <address@hidden>

    > There is no context-independent "usual problem" wrt merge operators,
    > as far as I can tell.   That's why the tutorial has the structure it
    > does.   With a little bit of constraints, _then_ "usual problems"
    > arise and have solutions:

    > The tutorial describes particular disciplined patch flows (but doesn't
    > call them that since people balk at the mention of "discipline").
    > So, you get "The update/commit Style of Cooperation" and "Development
    > Branches -- The star-merge Style of Cooperation" and (not in the
    > tutorial but mentioned on the list): "Using Multiple Branches Yourself
    > -- the Prism Merge Style of Hacking" and "Idempotent Merging -- The
    > --skip-present Style of Cooperation".

    > So, if you have "The Miles Bader Style" and need some options/commands
    > for it .......


And now I think we should all be scared because, obviously, this
points towards adding a merging-with-arch command that is the moral
equivalent of the lisp `loop' macro.

-t