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Re: Success report on Linux/PPC, small Ada problem
- From: mike stump <mrs at windriver dot com>
- To: rth at redhat dot com
- Cc: dewar at gnat dot com, fw at deneb dot enyo dot de, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk, minyard at acm dot org
- Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 12:07:50 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: Success report on Linux/PPC, small Ada problem
> Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:51:30 -0800
> From: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
> To: mike stump <mrs@windriver.com>
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 05:26:11AM -0800, mike stump wrote:
> > With full bidirectional merging that happens on a regular basis, this
> > issue disappears. One can reasonably consider either to be master
> > without much loss.
> Not really. When you believe you're working out of the master
> repository, you have no particular incentive to perform merges
> against a secondary repository. Merges may happen, but they will
> not be regular without extreme discipline.
Gosh, color me weird then. I performed these merges by hand for a
long time, on a very regular basis. I was inches away from a cron
job, but the time it took was so minimal that I never bothered.
> Which has, quite obviously, not been happening.
:-( They need to set a goal of once a week, come hell or high water.
I wish I had contributed the merge script... so I could point them at
it. Maybe Jason has a copy of it.