[Angstrom-devel] [REVIEW] backport altboot fixes to stable branch

[Junqian Gordon Xu]

On 02/22/2008 05:15 AM, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
> You just to mtn pluck -r <rev> one by one, from the oldest, committing
> in between. mtn gives default commit message, you should remove first
> line as you suggest. Each commit should still include revision which is
> being merged and changelog subject for it, I suggest just pasting line
> from BACKPORTS.txt. I leave mtn's default text where it is, at the top,
> and paste such a line after it. That might help with automated parsing
> of ever will be required. But thus such merges do not follow commit
> message policy of "normal" commits.
> 
> One final note is that I found mtn pluck fail for the following case: a
> rev adds a new files, next rev patches it. In this case, I just copy
> changed files from dev, and commit reminder of revs together, pasting
> few BACKPORTS.txt lines. Of course, you should be careful to not pull
> more changes than needed in such case.

Finally, I'm through with this backport excercise. However, after mtn 
push, I don't see any certs/revs out. Is this expected result?

mtn:  bytes in | bytes out | certs out | revs out
mtn:     1.3 k |     1.6 k |       0/0 |      0/0
mtn: successful exchange with monotone.openembedded.org

Regards
Gordon

P.S. I have to say that the backporting experience is not fun at all.