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[Robert Collins]

On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 23:20 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
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> Robert Collins wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 22:44 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> >>> It doesn't mention support for rich roots and subtrees as being
> >> Rich roots are more subtle.  I think we'll have to ensure
> >> that transferring xml7 to xml5 doesn't lose any data, but I think we
> >> can
> >> do that reasonably easily. 
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> > I thought we prohibited such transfers because the if the revision is
> > committed on top of in the xml5 repository, the root revision
> > information is trashed, and going back to xml7 data is made into
> > garbage. ?
> 
> Right.  The only case where you can safely transfer from xml7 to xml5 is
> if the xml7 data was originally converted from xml5 data.  I was
> thinking of supporting that case only.

It would be nice to support that case for live repositories too :).

-Rob
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