Re: One branchpoint discrepancy

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

On 10/31/2017 12:11 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBB...@t-...>:
>> Am 30.10.2017 um 20:30 schrieb Daniel J Sebald:
>>
>>> I'd sort of like to put effort into the right place.  I've cloned the
>>> cvs-fast-export utility and I'm willing to help on matters, so if its
>>> possible I wonder if we could enhance the merging aspect of that utility.
>>
>> I rather doubt any good will come from that.  Nobody understands that
>> utility anywhere near well enough to be able to modify it on short notice
>> without risking total break-down.  At this point it is, essentially, magic.
> 
> Sadly, HBB is correct.  The way I modified Keith's original code was by
> working from the outside in - there is a hard core, now in merge.c, that nobody
> understands.

I've looked at the code.  Very clean and well-written, actually, but I 
see the limitations.

Dan