[petsc-dev] PETSc developers who use weird MPI

[Peter Brune]

I've done my merges and updates.

- Peter


On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Nov 2013, Barry Smith wrote:
>
> > >
> > > The fix is to merge latest 'prbrune/sf-sfbasicops' in the same pathway
> it got into 'barry/saws’
> >
> >    Thanks. That will likely fix the problem.
> >
> >    I made the mistake of believing “it is ok to have some branch hang
> around unmerged with master etc for several months” myth
> >
>
> This mode works better when there are no dependencies between multiple
> branches.
>
> If there are dependencies like 'prbrune/sf-sfbasicops ->
> prbrune/mat-matcolor -> barry/saws ' we need extra effort to keep
> track of these paths - and make sure the fixes - if any - get
> propogated the same way. [and then - these branches can hang arround
> for a long time]
>
> [I guess these are the costs of having cleaner retraceable history and
> stabler master branch.]...
>
> Satish
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