[Python-Dev] Subversion branch merging

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Jul 13, 2007, at 11:39 AM, skip at pobox.com wrote:

>     Barry> diffs are so 20th century. :)
>
> How do you compare two versions of something without some sort of  
> diff?

Well okay, you caught me being flippant. :)

Sure, you visually compare with diffs, but you apply those changes  
with merges.  This means the end of posting patches because instead  
what you would do is post the url to a branch that you published some  
place.  It means that branch can be kept up-to-date as its parent  
branch changes, so a new feature candidate need never get stale.  It  
also means your new feature candidate is a first class revision  
control branch, just as usable as the trunk, say.  So it's much more  
powerful than trading patch files around.

- -Barry

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