Making your branches smaller for easier merges

[Manuel López-Ibáñez]

On 27/09/06, Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org> wrote:
> On 9/27/06, Diego Novillo <dnovillo@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Daniel Berlin wrote on 09/27/06 16:37:
> >
> > > If you are just writing a new pass, you can probably get away with
> > > branching only a few files, and switching those may be a lot better
> > > strategy than branching the entire trunk tree branch to modify 6 files
> > > in the gcc dir.
> > >
> > But this means that I'm at the mercy of mainline random breakage, right?
> Yes
>

Why? Perhaps I am entirely wrong but can't you just don't update (svn
up) those directories that are switched until mainline is in an usable
state?

Cheers,

Manuel.