On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 14:43 -0700, Ian Romanick wrote: 
> 
> 2. It becomes increasing difficult to merge (as opposed to cherry-pick)
> from one branch to the other as the branches diverge.  Michel has run
> into this.

At least in the case I assume you're referring to, it would have been
more or less the same problem with cherry-picking, as the indentation of
the GLX code is different between branches. I think the lesson there is
to resist the temptation of whitespace-only changes, no matter how much
'better' the result may appear.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer           |                http://www.vmware.com
Libre software enthusiast         |          Debian, X and DRI developer

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