[lm-sensors] Checking out and comitting to the libsensors-3.x branch

[Jean Delvare]

On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 21:03:02 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 07:40:30PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > But you do get a marker for copies or merges that you can follow to
> > > fork off A's history into B's.
> > 
> > True, but that's hardly convenient if merges are frequent and/or if the
> > number of branches is important. I start understanding why people
> > working with many branches don't even consider Subversion.
> 
> Well, git was written with merges as the first priority, as the kernel
> is being cloned and developed as several places
> simultaneously. mercurial has also better merge support.
> 
> I just stumbled over the following (which is why I'm replying to this
> old mail):
> 
> http://subversion.tigris.org/merge-tracking/
> http://www.orcaware.com/svn/wiki/Svnmerge.py
> 
> E.g. svn will one day have the support you need, but you need it
> today. :(

I don't think we can see we _need_ it. If it was there, we'd use it.
It's not, we'll do without it, no big deal. We'll simply go with the
parallel commit proposal I made a few days ago, and that will be fine.

-- 
Jean Delvare