Changing type of file

[Aaron Bentley]

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Martin Pool wrote:
> On  7 Nov 2006, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
>> Aaron Bentley wrote:
>>> Ben Finney wrote:
>>>>> Howdy all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I remember that older versions of bzr had problems with changing the
>>>>> file type, but thought that had been fixed with 0.10 or so. Apparently
>>>>> not:
>>> Yeah, not.  People wouldn't let me fix just commit.  They wanted me to
>>> overhaul bzr's type handling.
> 
> I think just fixing commit would tend to make the same problems crop up
> in status, diff, etc.  (I don't know if your patch had that problem or not.)

status, diff etc. already have problems, but I don't think fixing commit
would have made them worse.  After you commit, those problems go away,
because now you no longer have a kind change between your tree and your
basis.  (Of course, they're still broken if you ask them to act over a
kind change.)

>> You may want to import that patch into Bundle buggy, as it should help
>> to keep from forgetting it. One of the reasons I was trying to go
>> through the backlog. Though I must say it *looks* nice to have the BB
>> queue be less than a page long.
> 
> I really like bb.

I'm glad.  Sorry about the outage.

Aaron
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