Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/x86/x86
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: tech-misc
Date: 12/08/2007 18:20:17
christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas) writes:
> | Okay.
> | 
> | Alternatively, it would be pretty easy to apply the diffs to those
> | branches at the same time. I imagine that would serve the same
> | purpose? (The changes are quite straightforward, and I could patch the
> | three branches as well as the head without any trouble.)
>
> If you want to patch head and re-sync the branches (not patch the branches,
> because this does not help much), get permission from the branch owners and
> do it...

I don't quite get the difference -- can you explain? I would have
thought that if I performed the same transformation on both the trunk
and the branch it would eliminate any incremental merge effort the
change imposed. CVS doesn't keep track of change sets, after all...

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Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com