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Re: reverse-merge broken?

From: Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-10-18 16:54:28 CEST

On 10/18/07, Kamesh Jayachandran <kamesh@collab.net> wrote:

> Do you have any mergeinfo on a target from the corresponding merge
> source? Then only the 'avoid repeat reverse merge code kicks in' and
> hence no reverse merge.
>
> Probably we may need '--merge-insensitive' or '-G' to support repeat
> reverse merge.

Since a reverse merge is always going to be an explicit user
operation, maybe we ought to just not try to avoid repeat reverse
merges? The user has already signified they want to reverse the
merge, so why not just try to do it? What is the scenario where this
is going to lead to incorrect behavior?

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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