Getting rid of RootEntry?

[John A Meinel]

Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> While working on the Transactional Tree Transform, I figured out a
> pretty easy way of moving the tree root.  That is, turning the tree root
> into a subdirectory.
> 
> I believe it's working perfectly, but it breaks diff and status, because
> it causes a file type change; RootEntry has a file type of "root
> directory", but after the move, its type is "directory".
> 
> I think there are three ways to handle this:
> 1. Get rid of RootEntry, and have the the root entry be an
> InventoryDirectory with no parent or name.
> 2. Change the file type of RootEntry to "directory"
> 3. Make it legal for files to change type
> 
> My natural inclination is the first, because I don't see much advantage
> in making the root entry a special type.  Any thoughts?
> 
> Aaron
> 

With the future work of having nested trees, we were thinking to have a
new inventory type inside the parent tree. But that doesn't mean it
needs to be a distinct entry inside its own tree.
Because of a desire to be able to merge branches, it seems like it would
be nice to be able to move the root entry.

We may want #3 anyway, but I'm okay with #1 for now.

John
=:->

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