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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    [gentoo-dev]  Re: Gentoo: State of the Union
From:       R Hill <dirtyepic.sk () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-04-30 20:41:41
Message-ID: e337ev$h7$1 () sea ! gmane ! org
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Dan Armak wrote:
> On Saturday 29 April 2006 15:21, Fernando J. Pereda wrote:
>> The commit marked with @ is a special comit called a 'merge'.
>> I hope that clarifies the merge tracking part.
> You just described what merging is. Svn can do that too with svn merge. But, 
> if I merge changesets from branch A to B selectively, skipping some along the 
> way, can I later ask git to:
> 
> - list the changesets remaining in A that I haven't merged to B yet? 
> - list the branches, from a given list, which have/haven't merged a given 
> changeset?
> 
> Those are things svn can't do.
> 
>> However I don't know what do you mean with 'changeset tracking'.
> 
> I didn't mean that 'changeset tracking' is different from 'merge tracking'.

Subversion dev Daniel Berlin was recently hired by Google, and according to his 
blog[i] one of his first duties is to implement merge tracking in svn.

--de.


[i] http://www.dberlin.org/blog/

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