Re: Split commit naming

2019-11-25 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Joseph Myers : > My question is: is it a stable interface to reposurgeon that the portions > of such a split commit will always be numbered in lexicographical order by > branch name (or some other such well-defined stable ordering), so I can > write <80870.2> in gcc.lift and know that some repos

Split commit naming

2019-11-25 Thread Joseph Myers
I'm testing a gcc-conversion patch to implement the branchpoint fixes I identified for GCC branches where cvs2svn chose a bad parent for the branch-creation commit. With that patch, I see: # /branches/gcc-3_4-rhl-branch <80870>|<81014> reparent --use-order reposurgeon: couldn't match a name at