[RFC] making the null revision become real

[Denys Duchier]

Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> writes:

> I think you also were including the idea that the revision would have
> real metadata associated with it, e.g. a log message.  I'm not quite as
> certain that this is a good idea.

hmm... no, that is not what I wanted to suggest.  It seems to me that if we want
to maintain the fiction that all projects derive from the null revision, then
that revision should have the same metadata (if any) everywhere.  In other
words, starting a new branch is simply and exactly branching the empty branch
(ooh, I hope you can parse that).

Cheers,

--Denys