On Sun, 01 Jun 2008, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I said that a stacked diff was impossible to create m4echanically > from topic branches.
Given the topic and the merged branch, though, there's no inherent reason why you couldn't create them. [Even if just by applying all the topic diffs which apply cleanly in some deterministic order, then generating a final diff from the merged branch to the tree from the applied topic diffs.[1]] Don Armstrong 1: This would obviously be ugly in the case where you had loads of diffs which conflicted, but I'd suspect this only occurs frequently in dead-upstream packages.] -- No amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free [...] You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. -- Robert Heinlein _Revolt in 2010_ p54 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
