[Gnu-arch-users] Re: FEATURE PLANS: pruning instead of configs

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>

    > Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:
    > > No.  Another auto-created branch will have just hackerlab.

    > How does the auto-created branch work?  Is it some sort of commit hook?

Or "notifier"-style.  Yes, anything like that.  (Build-to-suit.)


    > BTW all these things look incredibly useful.  How long has it all been
    > percolating (or did you just drink way too much coffee yesterday)?

Yes, in essense, to the parenthetical.  But how long?  For a long
time.

The breakthrough was figuring out how to do selected commits.  The
low-level thing that makes that work has a bunch of generalizations
which in turn suggest the proposed features.   (And more -- there's a
file-locking thing in there too but I haven't been able to articulate
it yet.)

As I explained to someone else recently, it was very annoying,
actually.   I cracked the selective commit code a few days ago, but
that suggested a bunch of other stuff, and I haven't been able to
think about anything else since.   No, really -- I missed my
mopping-the-kitchen-floor appointment and everything.   Totally threw
off an entire week.


-t


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