what to do with repo with ghost revision

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Hi Tom,

On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 20:11 +0200, Tom Cato Amundsen wrote:
> The bzr repo of GNU Solfege was initially converted from a baz repo
> (and that from a tla repo, I think).
> 
> As a result there are ghost revisions. And while you have fixed many
> bugs related to ghosts, I have started wondering if I should create a
> fresh repo with bzr 2.0 and abandoning old history. Right now there is
> bug #397556 that make "bzr tag" only work on bzr 1.15 and older. And
> if you fix that bug, history has shown that some other bug will pop up
> and I'll start complaining again :-)
> 
> Do you think ghost revisions will ever be (almost) problem free for
> bzr users? Are there any tricks I can use to keep some history and
> loose the ghosts?
Yes, I think it's important that we support ghost revisions (including
ghosts in mainline) well.

Ghosts themselves are already quite well supported, the main problems
remaining I think are with ghosts in mainline. Are there any other
problems with ghosts in mainline besides #397556 ?

Cheers,

Jelmer

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