Re: [Gnu-arch-users] recent changes in address@hidden, and star-merge and update/replay defaults

[Robert Collins]

On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 14:55, Tom Lord wrote:
>     > From: Colin Walters <address@hidden>
> 
>     > > You need to walk the ancestry, looking for a continuation revision.
> 
>     > I would prefer some other solution that wouldn't be proportional
>     > to the archive size.
> 
> Well, an overarch abstraction might decide to add an "=upstream"
> notation in {arch}, as one possibility.  Or, for that matter, more
> than one of them.
> 
> Another idea is to add an "=ancestry" file to {arch} and the (not
> inconsierable) hair to keep that accurate.
> 
> Otherwise, we can work on that "other solution" but isn't the pony a
> higher priority?

AIUI configs address =upstream quite neatly today. As for =ancestry -
ugh. Lets use the patch logs for inference...

Rob
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