[fpc-devel] Need advice for refactoring

Marc Weustink marc at dommelstein.net
Sun Jul 18 02:58:57 CEST 2010


Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 17 July 2010 13:51, Marco van de Voort wrote:
>> Unless other systems really take into account the complete history of
>> both divergating branches in the merge, and not simply patch/merge, I doubt
>> VCS matters at all
> 
> Git's merge algorithm does this and is a lot more intelligent that
> SubVersion, and thus much less prone to conflicts. Git can even merge
> multiple branches at the same time into a single branch (known as
> octopus merge).   Just a bit of useless information.


I don't doubt the ability to merge, but will it result in 
usable/meaningfull code too ?

Marc (couldn't resist)



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