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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Martin Pool<mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2009/8/26 Robert Collins <robertc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 08:40 +1200, Tim Penhey wrote:
>>> On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:46:27 Martin Pool wrote:
>>> > I had the first case today of a branch
>>> > <https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~bialix/bzr/win32-paramiko-default/+merge/
>>> >10563> that wants to merge into two other branches and it changed the way I
>>> > think about merge proposals.  In this case it's a fix that wants to go both
>>> > into trunk and our 2.0 release branch.
>>>
>>> We are looking to change the constraint to only allow one MP in progress for a
>>> branch at a time.
>
> If you do that, I do think you'd have to allow for that one MP to talk
> about merging into multiple branches.  It's a matter of terminology
> whether this would be one MP with multiple targets (like multiple
> bugtasks) or multiple MPs shown together.
>

I agree that this is important.

jml