Re: [Monotone-devel] 3 proposed changes to manifest/changeset format

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 12:13:11AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Matt Johnston:
> 
> > If it'll fix dir dropping etc, sounds sane. Would this have
> > consequences for making the root directory renamable? I'd
> > like to seen renamable root directories eventually getting
> > supported, as it seems to provide a convenient way to bring
> > third party branches into a project
> 
> I'm not sure if this is going to work.  You could end up with multiple
> instances of the same file, which will be rather painful to deal with
> (if I'm not mistaken).

How do you mean?  I don't see how it's different from any other sort
of directory renaming.

It does require directory suturing to be useful, though.  Hmm.
(Because for the project-combination case to work, you need to be able
to unify two root directories; and if root directories are directories
like any other, this means directory suturing needs to work.)
("suturing" is taking two logically distinct files or directories, and
melding them into a single one.)

-- Nathaniel

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