Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Broken trees?

[Aaron Bentley]

Frederic Gedin wrote:

> > Btw, I wonder how hard it would be to go past tag boundary to find a 
> > common ancestor. Has anyone thought/tried to do something about it ? 

Lots.  AFAICT, a project treee doesn't have a reliable way of knowing 
who its direct ancestor is*, so you have to scan the archive until you 
hit a tag point.

My understanding is that Tom doesn't like the idea of star-merge using 
parent archives.  Please correct me if that's wrong.

It's definitely possible in theory.

Aaron

*The unreliable way is scanning patch logs.  But patch logs may be deleted.