Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Merge problems with tla

[Miles Bader]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 06:39:41PM +0300, Momchil Velikov wrote:
> Miles> Why should it be deprecated?  It seems like a coherent and
> Miles> useful function...
> 
>   Unneeded maybe? Together with ``star-merge --refernce''.  Can't arch
> track continuation chains until it finds the common ancestor all by
> itself (what is what expected to happen in the first place).

Maybe star-merge doesn't need it, but other merging strategies may.  Since
join-branch `makes sense' as a standalone function (to somebody that knows
about patch-logs), it seems a bit premature to delete it just because
star-merge doesn't need it...

-Miles
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