[cvsnt] Re: 2.0.58d/mergepoints

David Hauck davidh at netacquire.com
Fri Sep 30 21:51:54 BST 2005


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> David Hauck wrote:
>
> > BTW, the symmetric result of the two-branch mergepoint example
> you describe
> > below isn't clear to me (as I believe Gerhard is also questioning). This
> > isn't something that I came across in the documentation, but
> perhaps this
> > side effect is explicitly described somewhere else?
> >
> It's actually rare to merge bidirectionally... branches normally have a
> heirarchy, so you wouldn't want to merge in reverse.

Right, we *rarely* do this, which is why I was curious about the
bidirectional semantic of mergepoints.

> The whole bidirectional equivalence thing was put in a couple of years
> back by someone who badly needed it...  I've done a great many merges
> since and it's never merged the wrong code or missed anything, so it
> does its job...

Very cool.

-David

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