Re: Merges between PHP5 and PHP7

On Aug 22, 2014 1:39 PM, "Derick Rethans" <derick@php.net> wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Aug 2014, Anatol Belski wrote: > > > as there are many data type changes, here's an idea on how to simplify > > the merges. Git supports custom merge drivers which attracted my > > attention, so I've ended up with the following trick: > > As there are that many differences, does it still make sense to GIT > merge PHP 5 changes up to 7 at all? Shouldn't we just do it by hand. I > would expect that to have a much greater rate of success. I brought this topic a while back too. The same issue happens for pecl extensions. The more exts I do the more I think about either using separate branches or separate source files, respectively separate realeses or common release for both 5.x and 7.x. For the core, I have the feeling than manual merges will be far less painful. Cheers, Pierre