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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-staging] [xen-unstable] merge with xen-unstable

To: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@xxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-staging] [xen-unstable] merge with xen-unstable.hg
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:57:50 +0100
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On 26/10/06 11:52, "Muli Ben-Yehuda" <muli@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> These huge merges are a little worrying - how are you verifying that
> they don't accidentally revert stuff?
> 
> The kernel developers have strict rules about merges - basically
> create trees that don't have any in them when you're ready for them to
> be pulled upstream. This is probably easier in git then in hg, but
> worth considering.

I always manually diff the trees when merging from external repos.

 -- Keir



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