Re: bzr stable branch maintenance and backporting

On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 22:03 -0400, Tres Seaver wrote:
>
>
> I thought I understood that 'bzr' encouraged the "fix on the old rev
> and
> forward port" model over "backporting / cherry picking"? In the style
> described at:
>
> http://www.venge.net/mtn-wiki/DaggyFixes

I think that daggyfixes is the tail shaking the dog.

Folk usually don't know how far back a problem goes when they realise a
problem exists; where the fix exists in the global revision dag is a
technical issue for vcs authors, it should not be something code authors
need to think about.

-Rob

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