Re: log format for vc-bzr

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 13:20, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

>> By removing the pointer to the parents in the microbranch along with
>> the merge marker, the history (metadata) recorded in the microbranch
>> becomes inaccessible (in Lisp terms, garbage).
>
> What is a microbranch?

The history of a branch that gets committed with a merge; the history
you get with "log -n0" for merge commits.

> So it's a way to pretend that a series of changes on a branch is a
> single change that brings you to the last revision on that branch, is
> that right?

If you do merge followed by revert --pending-merges, yes. You can
selectively choose changes with "merge -c".

> "revert --forget-merges"
> forgets the whole commit, not just its commit message, so it seems to
> throw out the baby with the bathwater.

Again, it "forgets" the commits (in the original branch), but you
don't have to do it all at once.

    Juanma