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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] Fix merge commands to behave sanely for mixed


From: Tom Lord
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] Fix merge commands to behave sanely for mixed versions
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:17:57 -0700 (PDT)

    > From: David Allouche <address@hidden>

    > > Replay: Replay VERSION is sometimes used as a faster 'update', but is 
    > > actually a lower-level command.  However, there's very little sense in 
    > > applying a continuation (e.g. tag) revision to a tree containing a 
    > > namespace-previous revision.  Therefore, replay VERSION shall apply 
only 
    > > simple revisions, and stop processing at the first non-simple revision 
    > > it encounters, unless passed the new "--frankenstein" option.  Replay 
    > > REVISION shall have no such safeguards.

    [....]

    > The --frankenstein option is useless.


No, it isn't.   It's so not useless that the join-branch command is
just a syntactic shorthand for one special case of it.

-t





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