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Re: Moves in FSFS

From: Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 11:09:56 +0100 (BST)

Branko Čibej wrote:
> On 17.09.2013 12:55, Julian Foad wrote:
> [...]
>> Start with
>>
>>    r10:
>>      trunk
>>        /A
>>        /B
>>
>> branch the trunk:
>>
>>    r20:
>>      trunk
>>        /A
>>        /B
>>      branch
>>        /A (pointer to /trunk/A)
>>        /B (pointer to /trunk/B)
>>
>> modify branch/A:
>>
>>    r30:
>>      trunk
>>        /A
>>        /B
>>      branch
>>        /A
>>        /B (pointer to /trunk/B)
>>
>> Now let's say we're diffing branch_at_20 and branch_at_30.  I want to be
>> able to report a mapping between each path in branch_at_20 and the path
>> in r30 corresponding to "the same node", where "the same node" is to
>> be defined in some way that makes sense for tracking moves.  In this
>> simple example, there are not even any moves, and so I want the move-
>> tracking code to be able to deduce the following 1:1 path-mapping
>> between branch_at_20 and branch_at_20:
>>
>>    PATH_at_20        PATH_at_30
>>    branch    <->  branch
>>    branch/A  <->  branch/A
>>    branch/B  <->  branch/B
>>
>> It certainly must not report a simple (node-id, copy-id) correspondence,
>> because that would look something like:
>>
>>    PATH_at_20        PATH_at_30
>>    branch    <->  branch
>>    branch/A  <->  trunk/A  # or (nil) as it's out of tree-scope
>>    (nil)     <->  branch/A
>>    branch/B  <->  branch/B
>> which breaks the mapping between branch/A_at_20 and branch/A_at_30.
>
> I'm confused. What are you trying to solve here?

The query I'm trying to solve is: for the paths I can see in 'branch' in r20, tell me where they are in r30.

The example I gave above is the simplest case, the degenerate case, as they have not even been moved, but a typical interesting case is the above plus some moves:

  r40: move A to C, and move B to D

So the repository in r40 looks like:

  r40:
    trunk
      /A
      /B
    branch
      /C
      /D

Now we query: for each path in 'branch' in r20, where is "it" (the same node-line) in r40?  The query is to be answered without scanning all intervening revisions sequentially.

- Julian
Received on 2013-09-19 12:10:58 CEST

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