Re: [Pika-dev] pika-0.1pre4 tarball broken

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Robert Collins <address@hidden>

    >>> Yeah, that's fine.  Sorry, I used star-merge the first time I merge d
    >>> with you, but when I asked in #arch for their recommendations about
    >>> branching and merging, I came under the impression that star-merge 
    >>> was intended for complicated purposes and replay
    >>> --skip-present was for the general case

    >> I'll bet I can guess who you spoke with :-)

    > Perhaps. I've been consistently describing it as 'just another tool in
    > the toolkit'.

(cough) There was a time when I swear I hear you talking about it
doing everything star-merge does but better.  I think I recall you
trying to convince _me_ of that at one point or other. :-)

Doesn't matter (and undoubtedly my memory is unreliable in the details
about that).  --skip-present is a good tool in a good toolkit and this
entire particular snafu has been entirely beneficial in terms of
identifying a very subtle issue that I, at least, had't thought about
before.  The _only_ downside is that some people got confused by
running `replay' against the pre4 release (and then figured out
themselves how to work around that -- hardly much of a lossage.)
Overall, it's a neat discovery.

-t