On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 22:03 -0400, Tres Seaver wrote:
> 
> 
> I thought I understood that 'bzr' encouraged the "fix on the old rev
> and
> forward port" model over "backporting / cherry picking"?  In the style
> described at:
> 
>   http://www.venge.net/mtn-wiki/DaggyFixes

I think that daggyfixes is the tail shaking the dog.

Folk usually don't know how far back a problem goes when they realise a
problem exists; where the fix exists in the global revision dag is a
technical issue for vcs authors, it should not be something code authors
need to think about.

-Rob
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