Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Stable version?

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Sat, 18 Dec 2004 17:16:40 -0800, Nathaniel Smith 
<address@hidden> said:

njs> That's correct; Monotone never ever looks at file modification times
njs> or the like.  (At some point that might be a worthwhile optimization,
njs> but no-one's really felt -- or at least, scratched -- that itch yet.)
njs> 
njs> So it's almost certainly hiding a buglet of some kind, so I
njs> 'disapprove'd (reverted) Richard's change.

OK.

njs> Then making sure the 'disapprove' worked, I almost immediately found
njs> one bug of this class: it seems that in the current changeset
njs> concatenation logic, "patch [a] -> [b]" and "patch [b] -> [a]"
njs> concatenate to "patch [a] -> [a]", rather than "" (i.e., nothing).
njs> This is at the least not normalized... and normalize_change_set doesn't
njs> notice this case.

Hmm, considering the diff was against a specific revision ID, I can
see how this behavior came about.  Thanks for the explanation!

I guess I should look a little further next time.

Cheers,
Richard

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