Tracking Third-Party Sources (Vendor Branches)?

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 01:50:04PM -0500 I heard the voice of
John Arbash Meinel, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> Actually, I think you are thinking back to the Arch days,

Oh, I hope not; my Arch days consisted of an afternoon muttering to
myself repeatedly "I won't let this UI make me burst into tears, I
won't let..." before I finally caved in, went on a monstrous bender,
and came to staring at the bzr wiki   :p


> Yes you could run into problems if you miss a new file.

Well, there's also trouble in that I'd rarely be brining a new vendor
branch into a pristine tree; the project will be going a while before
I need to bring something in and adjust it.  By that time, I'll
already have a README and a LICENSE and a Makefile, and a src/ and a
doc/ and an examples/, so when I try to merge over from a vendor
branch of a project with its own version of all of them...   ick.


> Ultimately, we want bzr to do the right thing, and allow you to
> merge in another project into a subdirectory. (by-value nested
> trees).

Fortunately, I probably won't need to do it for a while yet, so I'll
confine myself to just low-level grumbling about the issue
occasionally   ;)


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