Re: SCMS question

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Warren Turkal <wt@penguintechs.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2007-02-23T20:13:33Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Gregory Stark wrote:
> You're still merging patches and reviewing patches by hand, without any of the
> tools to, for example, view incremental changes in the branch, view the logs
> of the branch, merge the branch into the code automatically taking into
> account the known common ancestor. Instead of receiving a 20k patch without
> any tools to work with it you would be given a branch name and be able to view
> and merge it into the main branch using the tools.

I don't see this as a win.  I understand the ability to see the patch as
separate revisions by the user, but for patch application, we really
need to see the diff -c of the entire patch.

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