[Scons-dev] Scons 2.3.2 regression, D tool...

[Mark A. Flacy]

On Saturday, August 09, 2014 08:22:40 PM Dirk Bächle wrote:
> On 09.08.2014 20:05, Russel Winder wrote:
> > On Sat, 2014-08-09 at 13:33 -0400, William Blevins wrote:
> >> [...]
> > 
> > Our problem is that it seems that maintaining a long running
> > synchronized clone of a default branch leads Mercurial to having
> > problems on a final merge. Advice from a Mercurial expert was that
> > actually the result was fine, just ugly. Gary felt it was an ugly too
> > far and that we should not use that way of merging. Nothing wrong there
> > per se. It just brings into stark relief that we do not have a
> > reasonable workflow just now.
> 
> I still don't feel the logic behind this reasoning. For me, the fact
> that the end result looks "messy" doesn't have anything to do with the
> workflow itself.

Well, the "messy" bit is information that nobody really cares about; so why 
keep it around?



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Mark A. Flacy