On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 20:14 +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Toon Moene wrote on Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 07:46:37PM CET: > > Richard Guenther wrote: > >> > >> Note that merging the branch will be painful (as in, please dissect > >> the branch into the individual patches again to make bisecting the > >> trunk SVN possible). > > > I agree about the bisecting-in-case-of-bugs issue. > > For what little the opinion of a mostly-lurker is worth here, but I > disagree on the bisecting-in-case-of-bugs issue. Today, there exist > version control systems that can deal with bisecting over nonlinear > histories, as well as temporarily linearizing a history (in case the > merge point, rather than a single patch on a merged branch is at fault). > It even works, too. > > That's only tangent to the real issue here, of course.
I'll continue along that tangent to point out that after a reghunt for a GCC patch identifies a merge from a branch it's easy to set up a new reghunt of that branch. Janis
