[Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] microbranches: prism-merge vs multi-merge

[Stefan Monnier]

> Another use for the idea of "forking microbranches to make new
> microbranches" is catching up after your upstream moves to a 
> new branch.

One way to do that would be to have a command like

    % tla commit --base address@hidden/toto--titi--3.4

which would do the same as

    % tla commit

except that the new revision would be a continuation of
address@hidden/toto--titi--3.4.

Then we could do

    % tla star-merge address@hidden/toto--titi--3.4
    % ...fix conflicts...
    % tla commit --base address@hidden/toto--titi--3.4

so the new revision is stored as a patch against the upstream branch rather
than a patch against the previous revision.


        Stefan