What constitutes the "identity" of a changeset?

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Fr, 2008-03-28 at 19:21 +0000, Paul Moore wrote:
> Just to explain, the problem I hit was in using the bzr-svn plugin. I
> was trying to start a branch from one place (a local svnclone mirror,
> IIRC) and then pull further changes from the original repository (over
> http). I got an error saying that the branches "were unrelated". But
> they were, in some fundamental sense, the same changes - only the
> source differed. In Mercurial terms, I believe they would have been
> the same. Possibly if the 2 sources had been pure Bazaar repositories
> they would have been the same - it may be that bzr-svn cannot make
> such strong changeset identity guarantees simply because of the
> limitations of Subversion.
Can you provide some more details about this? Was the same conversion
tool used in both cases? What version of bzr-svn? If you were pulling
from two svn repositories with the same UUID, this would be a serious
bzr-svn bug.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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