Success report on Linux/PPC, small Ada problem

[mike stump]

> 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.