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Re:Wine Staging by daurnimator on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @03:49AM (#10225212)
Interestingly enough, the mercurial 'mq' extension has full support for it: https://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/MqExtension#Publishing_pa...

It's also a pretty common thing in package manager managers.

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Re:Wine Staging by tomjakubowski on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @05:17AM (#10225490)
Is that a typo, or are there truly such things that manage package managers?
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Re:Wine Staging by daurnimator on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @09:22PM (#10231038)
It was not a typo. I was referring to the systems used by various linux distributions to manage how they build packages.

e.g. (sorry, I picked an example of openntpd, which only has 1 or 2 patches; other packages have many more!)

  - debian: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/openntpd.git/tree/debian/patches
  - arch: https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk?h=packages/openntpd
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Re:Wine Staging by Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @08:59AM (#10226186)
Android uses the repo tool to manage the many git repos where the actual code resides.

https://source.android.com/source/using-repo.html

Not sure if that's what gp meant.

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Re:Wine Staging by harperlee on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @05:23AM (#10225506)
Perhaps, if we count people that product-manage among those things.
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