Sven Panne wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 15. November 2006 14:30 schrieb Ian Lynagh:
[...]
It has been in the 6.6 branch since 16 Oct, but has only just entered
the HEAD. [...]
The direction of merging is a little bit chaotic in recent times IMHO. In good
old CVS days we had the rule that changes from the HEAD should be pushed to
the branches where appropriate, not the other way round. It would be good if
we used this rule again IHMO, as it makes tracking things easier (by humans,
at least).
I don't feel terribly strongly about this, but the reason I've committed fixes
to 6.6 sometimes is that (a) its sometimes more convenient, if I have an up to
date 6.6 tree to test on, and (b) it's easy to see which patches are in 6.6 and
not the HEAD, but we can't do that in the other direction. So we'll never
forget to merge a patch from 6.6 into HEAD, but we will almost certainly forget
to merge in the other direction.
So I'll leave this up to Ian as the caretaker of the 6.6 branch. I'm happy to
stop pushing new patches to 6.6 if that's what folk would prefer.
Cheers,
Simon
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