merges, commit rights and other OSes

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/8/25 Christian Thalinger <Christian.Thalinger at sun.com>:
> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>> True, but I don't see the advantage in destroying the history just to
>> make the changes into a more convenient set of changesets.
>
> Well, at least when the bsd-port is commited back to jdk7, the history
> is destroyed anyway.  I never used Mercurial's rebase, but maybe we can
> keep changes in separate changesets and push them (hopefully) up to
> jdk7, with history?
>
> -- Christian
>

Depends how you commit it back; in theory you should be able to hg
export the changeset and hg import --exact it to the gate repository,
which will attach it to the same parent changesets.  I've done this
between icedtea and JDK7 repositories.

The only problem I do foresee is jtreg as I doubt the comments for
these changesets have Sun bug IDs... sigh.-
-- 
Andrew :-)

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