Re: Rewriting bzrmerge.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 07:40:54 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> 
> To be honest, I never used bzrmerge.el the few times that I merged, and I 
> doubt 
> whether anybody noticed.

If you didn't have to deal with commits that are marked "backported"
or "don't merge to trunk", then the merge is a trivial VCS job, and
indeed doesn't need any help.

Otherwise, bzrmerge.el saves a lot of manual, error-prone typing, no
more, no less.

> More generally, I sense that there's a tension here between having the 
> repository reflect the actual history of changes, warts and all, and having 
> the 
> repository reflect the history of changes in a nice tidy organized way.  
> Having 
> done a fair bit of software archeology myself I must say that I far prefer 
> the 
> former.  (Plus, it's less work for the non-archeologists....)

I don't think bzrmerge changed anything in this department.