Re: Hg sure is weird!

MikeK> The development guidelines for the Solaris kernel and core userland MikeK> require no "merge turds". So we have tools to trim off side MikeK> branches. ST> You mean the repo is forced to proceed in a straight line? Yes. ST> What happens if you, oh, add a driver to the kernel? Does that ST> driver's early history just get summarized as one big patch to the ST> kernel? Yes. Any history (for that driver) prior to the initial integration is dropped. It works out reasonably well in practice (at least for us). mike _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta