Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re-linking to revlib implemented

[James Blackwell]

      Robert Collins:
>     > So there might be an error-handling branch, a diff-speedups branch, a 
>     > no-pristines branch, etc?  Do I keep my own integration branch and 
>     > star-merge them into it? 
>
Tom Lord:
> I'm not _entirely_ of the same opinion as Robert: I think you can do
> more than one thing in a single version and still be reasonable to
> merge from.   I wouldn't just apply the blanket judgement "bad" to
> multi-purpose development branches.
>

[long explanation of the preceeding paragraph]

Though in retrospect I think this is the right way to go, there's one
nasty side effect of doing things this way. 

Speaking personally, I make changes that I like in a wide variety of
places; I make changes to rbrowse, grab, delta, etc. When I keep all of
these changes in seperate branches without some sort of integration 
branch, I no longer have a "jblack" version of tla that is comprised
of all of my changes.   

Because of Tom's high latency, I may have to wait days, weeks, sometimes
even months for me to personally benefit from all of the changes that I
have made. 

I suppose there's workarounds. I could make a tla--local, and merge
everything one-way into there..... but this has its own side effects. As
time passes and patches accumulate, I would have three possible
decisions that I can make: I can develop against tom's version, I can
develop against my version, or I can halt development and wait for Toms
version to converge towards mine.

None of those three choices are appealing over the long term. 

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