Agreed. The additional meta-data are needed to make the proper choice of
the common ancestor (i.e. default common contributor).
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On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 12:57:30PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Wednesday, June 13, 2001 at 23:12:16 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: Maintaining branches...
> >
> > Is there some reason why the -j's could not be recorded in the CVS directory,
> > [...] At commit time, the notations could be recorded in the RCS
> > files for future use.
>
> That's the trick. [...] Is doing it as part of the commit message sufficient?
NO! One wants to be able to query based on this; more
importantly, CVS itself needs to be able to do so to implement
merge-tracking.
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