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Re: Restoring an archive from backup, and then?

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:25:57 +0200

Niemann, Hartmut wrote on Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:42:44 +0100:
> So at least it looks like a newer working copy can not be overwritten incidentially by the restored (older) HEAD revision.

It's not that simple --- once you commit 11 revisions to the restored
repository, you'll get some... interesting errors.

>
> But how should one recover in such a situation?
> Is a fresh checkout and a manual merge necessary?
>

Yes. And change the UUID of the recovered repository --- to account for
the problem above (basically, post-r110 history forked).
Received on 2012-11-28 14:26:46 CET

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