Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Maintainership, and whiners...

[Martin Langhoff]

On 10/14/05, Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:
> 2005/10/13, Martin Langhoff <address@hidden>:
> > > BTW, have you used mercurial for real?  When I tried it out, it didn't
> > > seem to handle file-renaming in any sane manner (as far as I could
> > > tell, it just modelled renaming as add+delete, which utterly destroys
> > > merging), and that's a pretty fatal flaw.
> >
> > No, it's not a fatal flaw... see, I've had too much of Linus'
> > kool-aid
>
> Er, clearly.  The rest of your message basically says "trust me, we'll
> somehow figure out how to handle this before things get _too_ painful,
> it's not nearly as bad as it looks..." (followed by a bunch of furious
> hand-waving) -- but neglects to demonstrate a usable mechanism.  Is
> there one?

Sorry, I should have clarified. I'm a believer because I've seen it
work. It's in the last few 0.99.8 releases, and being used by some
kernel maintainers which are dealing with a directory reorg, but still
merging patches from Linus' tree.

cheers,



martin