[rfc] Allow action parameter to smart_add to return a file_id

Matthew D. Fuller fullermd at over-yonder.net
Thu Jul 20 19:46:45 BST 2006


On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 12:31:51PM -0500 I heard the voice of
John Arbash Meinel, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> I have a use case of wanting to be able to create a new tree with
> the same file ids as another tree (or subset of the other tree).

Similarly, it would be nice to be able to /alter/ the existing
file-ids to match another tree.  Use-case: Two people independently
init/add a tree and work on it, and now want to be able to merge.  Or
perhaps this is a case for the id aliases that I vaguely recall
bandied about in the SVN case.


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