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Subject: Re: [boost] [git][iostreams] Forking without an established merge point
From: Daniel James (dnljms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-03-31 07:12:04


On 31 March 2014 11:35, Bjorn Reese <breese_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> If I look at the develop branch of Boost.Iostreams then GitHub says that
> "This branch is 253 commits ahead and 91 commits behind master".
>

It's not that bad. It's only the Stephen Kelly changes that haven't been
merged. We need to decide what to do with them.

It appears that Boost.Iostreams has not established a merge point
> between master and develop as described in:
>
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/PostCvtMergePoint
>

An appropriate merge base would be
dd73949749da272867bef1c5bcb5d2925601c020, apart for a file permission
difference, it's identical to the previous commit on origin/master. I'll do
that tonight if no one objects - it's a good idea to do this whatever we do
with the changes in develop.


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