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

[David Allouche]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 07:17:58PM -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> 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.

I recently put up a butt-ugly proof-of-concept implementation of "replay
only the patchlog part of this revision" in tlash. It's called "forget"
and it is in the "tlash.d/features" file.

Of course, a real implementation of "--patch-logs-only" and
"--no-patch-logs" in changeset and do-changeset (and all CLI commands
which use them internally) would do things _very_ differently.

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