Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Creating and joining branches...

[Aaron Bentley]

Cameron Patrick wrote:
> I wouldn't mind having a more streamlined approach for this.  The best
> way I can think of to do it is something like:
>
> $ tla apply-delta project--branch-apple--0--patch-123 
> project--branch-cheese--0--patch-345
> $ tla set-tree-version project--branch-cheese--0
>
> This could be helped a bit with a script that used `tla logs` and `tla
> revisions`.
>
> Actually, wrappers like ABA or FAI probably already do this, I should
> really get around to trying one at some point.  

Yeah, the aba change-version script is essentially what you wrote above. 
 In Fai, you can do "fai update project--branch-cheese--0"

> So far, my solution
> has been to just keep multiple project trees lying around for
> different branches so I don't need to switch between them so much.

I do that too, for branches I'm always working on.

Aaron

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Aaron Bentley
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