Can a file_id's kind change.

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 01:53:17PM +0200 I heard the voice of
> Gary van der Merwe, and lo! it spake thus:
>> I'm trying to optimise bzr qlog dir, and I was wondering if a
>> file_id's kind can change.
> 
> Yep.
> 

They are allowed to change. We had debates on this, but basically *Arch*
allowed them to do so. And if we wanted a lossless conversion, then we
did to.

The easy way to force it is just:

bzr init
touch foo
bzr add foo
bzr commit -m "as file"
rm foo
mkdir foo
bzr commit -m "as dir"


John
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