Getting rid of RootEntry?

[Aaron Bentley]

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Martin Pool wrote:
| On 17 Jan 2006, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:
|>But then diff and status would show adds/deletes instead of
|>type changes.
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| Well, I suppose you could make them know about this and show it as a
| kind change, but it's a bit kludgy.

Exactly.

|>This may be one of those cases where we eventually have to put in hard
|>labor to make things slightly easier for user.  But I'm happy to put
it off.
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| Maybe it'd be easier to get systematically into the merge code after
| your tree transform refactoring?  That would be the area I'd be most
| concerned about affecting.

Sure thing.  The old merge code already handles this case, since it also
serves as revert.  I'm confident we can support it as well or better in
the transform code.

Aaron
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