Re: [Monotone-devel] Merging cvssync in small pieces: Pipe abstraction

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 12:10:55PM +0200, Christof Petig wrote:
> Hi Nathaniel,
> 
> I decided to propose merging cvssync in small pieces:
> - Win32 pipe abstraction
> - cvs_import and cvssync diff apply code (yet to factor out so that both
> share the same code,I need to contact Graydon about this) [that's
> index_deltatext(), struct piece etc., most probably this will mandate a
> sane scope for the global_pieces variable (rcs_import.cc:307)]
> - anything ready by then

Hmm, I'm just not clear why you suggest this?  My general preference
is not to have dead code sitting around mainline, and since none of
these changes are useful until they all go in... what is gained by
doing this complicated piecewise landing over just getting the branch
all in shape and merging it all at once?

-- Nathaniel

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