[RFC] making the null revision become real

[Vincent LADEUIL]

>>>>> "Denys" == Denys Duchier <duchier at ps.uni-sb.de> writes:

    Denys> 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.

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

As in :

when: epoch
what: void
who: god, the creator or any bzr dev :-)

     Vincent