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[Robert Collins]

On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 04:23 +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
> > I'd like us to consider overhauling the concept of fileids. I think
> > fileids serve an important purpose, in letting us unambigously talk
> > about a versioned path in multiple trees when it has been
> > renamed/deleted/etc. But as currently defined they restrict us nearly as
> > much as they simplify our code for merge etc.
> I like the idea, interested in seeing where this may lead us. Parallel
> imports especially would niiiice to have.

Its important to realise that there will always be a non-trivial set of
negatives around parallel imports: we should strive to avoid them as
much as possible. (At a minimum the separate history will be a storage
overhead).

Rob
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