Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [bug] import revisions should have a distinctive header in their patchlogs

[James Blackwell]

Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Since currently, they are always at base-0, and *don't* have tag 
> headers, it's pretty easy to determine whether a revision is an import 
> revision from tree data.
>
> That will change if imports are permitted to occur anywhere (as Tom 
> plans), and will make it impossible to get an accurate picture of 
> ancestry from tree-local data.  Therefore, I suggest adding a 
> distinctive header to the patchlogs of import revisions.

What's the logic on allowing imports anyways? Offhand, I don't imagine
it as a useful tool since in my mind it would break the chain of
revisions, i.e.

Base-0 -> Rev-1 -> Rev-2 -> Rev-3

Base-0 -> Rev-1 -> Rev-2  Base-1 Rev-(3? 1?)

Why wouldn't somebody just avoid this mess and just start a new branch?


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