Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch/subversion comparison question

[Florian Weimer]

Neal D. Becker wrote:

> I was reading subversion doc, and one thing really caught my attention.  It
> says that svn doesn't keep track of which patches are already applied, and
> applying a patch more than once would cause problems.
> 
> I believe arch doesn't suffer from this defect?  Is this correct?

Partly, yes.  The most simple case, repeated merging only in one
direction, is solved completely.  The general case is very hard, and
even arch cannot handle it completely without human intervention.

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