From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21021 invoked by alias); 13 May 2006 02:28:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 21013 invoked by uid 22791); 13 May 2006 02:28:56 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Sat, 13 May 2006 02:28:54 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1FejsB-0006Ui-Jt; Fri, 12 May 2006 22:28:51 -0400 Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 08:03:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Nick Roberts Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: New branch [was Re: RFC: MI output during program execution] Message-ID: <20060513022851.GA24947@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Nick Roberts , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <17458.60694.135878.624750@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <20060404220637.GA12064@nevyn.them.org> <17486.36188.127822.347550@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <20060504150414.GE32605@nevyn.them.org> <17508.18716.564160.93092@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <20060512124331.GA3460@nevyn.them.org> <17510.34460.791254.936961@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17510.34460.791254.936961@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-05/txt/msg00275.txt.bz2 On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 01:23:40PM +1200, Nick Roberts wrote: > Perhaps I'm confusing things a bit. Maybe mergepoints are just for merging > HEAD to branch. Right. > Is any tagging needed when the branch gets merged to HEAD? > (possibly a bit hypothetical as I realise I may never get that far). Not really. Normally, you'll just take the diff from the last mergepoint to the branch tip, and apply that to HEAD, and declare the branch dead - or declare the branch dead somewhat before that as the patch gets reviewed, depending how it works out. All this is much easier in non-CVS... -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery