Code review comment for lp://staging/~spiv/bzr-builder/merge-subdirs-479705

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Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote :

I am looking forward to using this, but wonder why it used with branching ("merge") and not nesting ("nest")?

Andrew wrote:
> have a recipe that specifies "current trunk + packaging from $recent-packaging".

That's the most common use case and looks like "nesting", not merging.

As far as I understand the following will take of this / make it behave like "nest":
> I think I would like to see catching UnrelatedBranches, and then if
> a subdir is specified, try again with NULL_REVISION as the base.

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