[Gnu-arch-users] Re: towards standards specifications

[Miles Bader]

Andrew Suffield <address@hidden> writes:
> > Of course whether it's worth the effort to do the above, I don't know...
> > It might make Robert Collins' `pure-merge' stuff a lot more efficient
> > (I think that can be done with only log-file changes).
> 
> This was the technique with which pure merges were originally intended
> to be used. That's where the name comes from - you take a "pure"
> changeset from another branch and stuff it into your own, without
> modifying it (or at least, no more than you have to).

It's the `no more than you have to' point that seems the stickler,
though.  Tom's remark that that nothing should be getting commited
except completely clean (heh, `pure') changesets seems like a good
reason not to try this optimization...

-MIles
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