Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Mixing star-merge and selective replay

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Aaron Bentley <address@hidden>

    > Neil Stevens wrote:
    > > On Thursday April 15, 2004 12:57 pm, Aaron Bentley wrote:

    > >>>tla sync-tree proj--foo--0.1--patch-20 will add just the patchlog, so
    > >>>star-merge and replay --skip-present will never apply the patch.  The
    > >>>effect is as if you replayed proj--foo--0.1--patch-20, then manually
    > >>>reversed all its changes.

    > > Won't that sync-tree command also add patchlogs for base-0 through 
    > > patch-19, too?

    > Yes.  I didn't express that well.  Before using sync-tree, you should 
    > merge anything up to and including patch-19.  AFAIK, there's no easy way 
    > to add a single patch-log.  Which is a pity.

If you want to dig around in the boiler room:

There's many reasons why apply_changeset should sometimes _not_ do
anything under the patch log.

There but for for a s/!/foo == / goes a modification to changeset
application that would allow either ignoring or doing only patch-log
changes.  From there, it can be floated to various CLIs of which "add
patch log" would be a trivial example.

-t