Re: [Sablevm-developer] branch permissions and tag creation

[Chris P. <chr...@ma...>]

Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote:

>>1) Under the new merge policy, is it acceptable to create the 
>>inflate_thin_locks/ branch in my sandbox, copy the merged changes from 
>>the working copy of the tag I just created, and then commit that with a 
>>"Merged ..." message?
> 
> 
> Well, assuming the result would be just the same, as if you did the
> merge in the right place - then sure. But why not do it the right
> way, in the right place in the first place?

[...]

> The merge policy is getting especially important when merging things
> into staging and further.  There's nothing that prevents you from being
> inacurrate and messy in your own sandbox.  If you think that this
> information is good enough for you - then, I think it's fine.
> 
> The reason why merge policy forbids modifications not strictly necessary
> to the merge itself is, as I read it, that if the merge gets reverted
> for any reason - these changes are lost.  The other reason is that if
> you want to repeat the merge in another place/time, you know exactly
> what was merged by looking at the log message.
> 
> In short: it's just much better and easier to abide by the policy ;-)

Thank-you for the clarification.  I just wanted make sure I didn't go 
and do something terrible.

Anyway, the tag is there now.

Cheers,
Chris