Re: short question about merge [PROPOSAL] vs. tree-deltas

Branko ÄŒibej <brane@xbc.nu> writes:

> >At present two files can only share the same node revision id if they
> >are the result of copying directories, in which case the files will
> >have the same basename. So
> >
> > dir1/file1 == node_N.copy_C.rev_R
> > dir2/file1 == node_N.copy_C.rev_R
> >
> >can occur.
> >
>
> Yes, that can occur... (sorry Sander, I didn't think of lazy copying).
> However, in that case, it's the same file, there's nothing to merge

I was simply responding to Sander's point, but from a brief look at
Tom's scenario it appears that the file names don't really matter. So
whether these two files have the same basename doesn't affect the his
question.

> >It's possible that when (or should that be if?) atomic move gets
> >implemented then the original scenario will occur.
> >
> >
> No, Bill Tutt thought up a way to avoid this, and IIRC it's already
> implemented in his branch.

Hmmm. I thought atomic move was intended to lead to exactly that sort
of duplication, but I only ever used Bill's original 1003 branch, I
haven't looked at Mike's newer branch.

-- 
Philip Martin
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