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Re: adding branches to bzr?
From: |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: adding branches to bzr? |
Date: |
Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:21:23 +0900 |
Karl Fogel writes:
> Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:
> >My understanding is that there's negligible cost to adding multiple bzr
> >branches to the central repo (in terms of, say, server resources or bzr
> >log output). Is that right? If so, I guess it won't hurt to start
> >making branches for the features lined up for Emacs 24 (which we'll
> >begin concentrating on in a couple months, once 23.2 draws closer to
> >release).
>
> If they're all in a shared repository without working trees on Savannah,
> (which I believe to be the case), then branches are very cheap, yes.
Caveat: Joakim must have branched from one of the branches in the
shared repository. Since his branches are fairly old AIUI, that
probably is too much to hope for as a side effect of the CVS->git->bzr
process. I'm not sure how easy it would be to preserve his git
history, but if he doesn't care much about that (presumably it's in
a ChangeLog or he can generate one from git log), the branch-from-
Emacs-of-Christmas-present-with-One-Big-Patch approach isn't too bad
for moderate-sized, focused changes like the ones he mentions.