On Monday 20 December 2004 03:27, Ben Reser wrote:
[snip]
> I'm going to revert this change before we release 1.1.2 tomorrow.
> While this does fix this it exposes a revert bug that can't be fixed on
> 1.1.x because it requires wc format changes. Ultimately the changes
> that this allows to be applied can not be reverted.
>
> While technically you can already apply them by merging the delete and
> the add separately, I don't think many people are doing this. So I'd
> rather have things error out than have revert fail.
>
> How revert fails in this case is it appears to have worked, but reverts
> to the replaced version not the original version. This means changes
> won't be reflected properly. Fortunately, the wc is left in an
> uncommitable state so it's not possible to screw up the repo with this.
>
> Basically, I'd rather have us fail for the time being in a way that's
> recoverable than appear to work and fail in a way that's difficult to
> recover from or even know that we've failed.
Ah, you're right. Yeah, best to work in a recoverable way until we get a
better solution to this problem.
-John
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Received on Mon Dec 20 12:16:28 2004