[Gnu-arch-users] Re: [PATCH] Re: bazaar bug #385 (Re: Stabilizing Bazaar?)

[Robert Widhopf-Fenk]

On Monday, July 4, 2005 at 23:24:45, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Robert Widhopf-Fenk <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > My problem comes from a call to arch_archive_connect_branch
> > within arch_build_revision.   It was called for an archive
> > which I did not register and thus returned NULL.
> 
> Then, it was not a real "bug", but a bad error message.
> 
> I've just comitted a patch to issue an explicit error message in
> your case, and "exit(2)".
> 
> Is it OK?

No, IMHI it IS a bug.

Merging from archive A must NOT require access to archive B. 
While baz might use B to find a better merge point/strategy
it must not require access to B, since this effectively prevents 
merging from A when B is gone.

B might be gone without being able to get access to it again.

Baz should give a warning (about suboptimal merging?), but
it still should be able to merge from A.  Tla is able to do
so and IMHO it is a must for a distributed SCM.

Cheers Robert