Re: RFC: Untangling the peg revision knot (was: A preliminary study of non-contiguous transformations in the Hilbert space of Alexandrian solutions)

On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 17:52 +0100, Stefan Haller wrote:
> I think both points are valid, and both can happen in practice.
>
> This means that the only way to please everybody is to *try both*: first
> default to HEAD (or BASE for WCs), and if the path doesn't exist there,
> try r12 instead. This will do the right thing for people looking for a
> now-deleted branch, and it will do the right thing for people looking
> for either the new or old name of a renamed item.
>
> The only situation where it might give wrong results is when an item was
> renamed, and an unrelated item was later added with the same name. This
> is probably unlikely enough that I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Arrrggghh!

- Julian

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