also sprach Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.22.1627 +0100]: > I am not sure you have understood feature branches. They are > independent, no matter what the overlap. Each feature branch tracks one > feature against upstream, no matter how the other features work. > > The overlap management is done in the integration branch. This > is significantly different from a quilt series, as others have already > mentioned in this thread,which is a dependent series of > linearized patches; and a change in an earlier feature impacts all > subsequent patches (and quilt is good at automating the handling of > that impact). [[duplicated so this can be archived on the vcs-package > mailing list as well]]
well, I know what feature branches are but I suppose I jumped the gun. They are independent until you integrate them. But you will integrate them, thus I tend to think of them as interdependent from the start. Anyway, we're not talking about developing with quilt. We are talking about converting feature branches to quilt patches for the sake of representation in the source package. I don't see why you would oppose to that at all, to be honest. > Or the patch manager does integration. *Shrug*. Someone has to > do integration sometime. That is the nature of the beast. The trick is > to do it once, and never have to think about it again. ... except when one feature needs to change and then conflicts with another feature on re-integration. > B) Development happens on the feature branch. [...] > 2) Development on one of the branches conflicts with one or more > other features. Here, the human has to figure out the difference > on the integration branch -- once. No, every time you do development on the branch. And every time, you have to remember which branch dependended/conflicted on the feature branch you're currently working on, or figure it out by trial and error. I don't consider this efficient. This is work that a computer should be doing. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems windoze 98: <n.> useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
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