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Re: Proposed gfortran development branch
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 20:14 +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Toon Moene wrote on Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 07:46:37PM CET:
> > Richard Guenther wrote:
> >>
> >> Note that merging the branch will be painful (as in, please dissect
> >> the branch into the individual patches again to make bisecting the
> >> trunk SVN possible).
>
> > I agree about the bisecting-in-case-of-bugs issue.
>
> For what little the opinion of a mostly-lurker is worth here, but I
> disagree on the bisecting-in-case-of-bugs issue. Today, there exist
> version control systems that can deal with bisecting over nonlinear
> histories, as well as temporarily linearizing a history (in case the
> merge point, rather than a single patch on a merged branch is at fault).
> It even works, too.
>
> That's only tangent to the real issue here, of course.
I'll continue along that tangent to point out that after a reghunt
for a GCC patch identifies a merge from a branch it's easy to set up
a new reghunt of that branch.
Janis