looms v. rebase (or, Where are the blogs?!) [was: Re: Will re-basing support be added into Bazaar core ?]

[Forest Bond]

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 06:26:53PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Loom has its own flaws, however, as pointed out in
> bazaar-vcs.org/Documentation/LoomAsSmarterQuilt:
> 
>     However, it is disastrous to perform a partial commit in
>     feature-foo and then going up-thread, as the remaining changes are
>     suddenly combined with any pending merges resulting from moving
>     up-thread. Thus, if a partial commit is performed, I first shelve
>     any remaining changes before going up-thread[.]
> 
>     If I forget to shelve changes before moving up-thread with pending
>     merges, the remaining uncommitted changes become intertwined with
>     the pending merge, and can potentially be difficult to
>     extricate. This can be a frustrating situation and is one of the
>     primary warts of using loom as a quilt replacement.

I wrote that.  This has since been fixed; up-thread will refuse to go anywhere
with live changes in the WT.

Another regular bzr-loom user, BTW.  That makes at least 5.

-Forest
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Forest Bond
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