On 9/27/06, Diego Novillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Daniel Berlin wrote on 09/27/06 16:37:
> If you are just writing a new pass, you can probably get away with
> branching only a few files, and switching those may be a lot better
> strategy than branching the entire trunk tree branch to modify 6 files
> in the gcc dir.
>
But this means that I'm at the mercy of mainline random breakage, right?
Yes
Most of the time I would rather do controlled merges when I know
mainline is in a usable state.
Some of us like to live on the edge.
Seriously though, it's a tradeoff between how much time you want to
spend on branch maintenance vs how much mainline breakage you are
willing to accept.
I just wanted to throw it out there since some people may not know
it's even possible
