Re: 3.0.4 RC4

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:27 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 20-Feb-2009, Rob Mahurin wrote:
>
> | $ pwd
> | /Users/rob/src/octave
> | $ hg pull http://www.octave.org/hg/octave
> | $ hg pull http://hg.tw-math.de/release-3-0-x
> | $ hg branches
> | default                     9175:fa981a053064
> | release-3-0-x               9028:0bd0ac660964 (inactive)
> | $ hg log -f | head
> | changeset:   9175:fa981a053064
> | $ hg checkout release-3-0-x
> | 2698 files updated, 0 files merged, 830 files removed, 0 files
> | unresolved
> | $ hg checkout default
> | 2010 files updated, 0 files merged, 1518 files removed, 0 files
> | unresolved
> |
> | Now both histories are in the same mercurial database.  This has
> | turned out useful in my projects where I use git, but none of them
> | are as large as octave.  We'll see what happens.
>
> OK, I didn't know it was that simple to merge two archives.  But I
> still don't think I want to keep the release branches in the same
> archive with the main development sources.
>
> jwe
>

This is actually an "implicit feature". pull should import all
changesets not present in the current repository, which is exactly
what it does here. Though it never occured to me either.


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RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
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