Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: towards standards specifications

[Andrew Suffield]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 11:48:00AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Of course whether it's worth the effort to do the above, I don't know...
> It might make Robert Collins' `pure-merge' stuff a lot more efficient
> (I think that can be done with only log-file changes).

This was the technique with which pure merges were originally intended
to be used. That's where the name comes from - you take a "pure"
changeset from another branch and stuff it into your own, without
modifying it (or at least, no more than you have to).

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