Hg sure is weird!

[mike.kupfer at xemacs.org]

>>>>> "ST" == Stephen J Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

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