[Development] Proposal: New branch model

[Thiago Macieira]

On Friday, 25 January 2019 01:10:35 PST Simon Hausmann wrote:
> I do quite like what Allan suggested: We could try the cherry-pick the other
> way around. Volker, Lars, Thiago etc. surely remember the p4i script we
> used to have when we were using Perforce. Imagine that with more
> automation.

I vaguely remember it. But your bringing it up is *not* an argument in favour 
of cherry-picking. Doing backporting properly in the Perforce days was a 
nightmare. We did not consistently backport fixes to earlier releases, even 
when we had a somewhat long stable series (4.3 went through 4.3.5).

Also, unlike Git, Perforce "merges" *were* a series of cherry-picks and it did 
know which commits had been cherry-picked and which ones hadn't. So if you 
told it to merge a range, it would tell you everything that was missing. More 
importantly, the range did not have to be contiguous, so you could cherry-pick 
only your own changes and let others deal with theirs. It also helped p4 had a 
pretty good automated conflict resolution in the command-line (today, I use 
kdiff3 for that, via git mergetool).

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