[MERGE] Re: merging in versioned-file

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Wed Feb 22 04:44:15 GMT 2006


On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 22:31 -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 10:26 -0600, John A Meinel wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >> Why is copy_content() marked as a 'destructive operation!'. I don't see
> >> anything that actually removes information here. I'm guessing this is
> >> old documentation. Since 'fetch()' shouldn't be destructive. (At least
> >> in my mind).
> > 
> > The slow code path happens to be non destructive. The fast code path for
> > weaves will copy the repository via copy_multi - which is destructive.
> > 
> > Rob
> > 
> 
> 'copy_multi' really does not seem like something that should ever be
> destructive. After all, it is 'copy' not 'move_multi'.

cp source/inventory.weave target/inventory.weave.

-Rob
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