From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:12:40 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git/spearce.git (topics)
Message-ID: <20071024001240.GB6404@thunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vtzoh7j1l.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 12:00:38PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> You can view 'next' as if it is sort of -mm.  Following 'master'
> is like following Linus tree, whose development is without those
> numerous 'merge improvements again' merges into 'next'.

Actually -mm is much closer to 'pu', since it can and is rewound all
the time.  Patches can disappear if they are causing problems, they
can be replaced and reworked, etc.

						- Ted