Re: SCMS question - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: SCMS question
Date
Msg-id 200702232013.l1NKDXE28742@momjian.us
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In response to Re: SCMS question  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: SCMS question  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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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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