A few thoughts on foreign integration...

[jbowtie at amathaine.com]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:
>
> So, this is a problem that we've encountered in some other situations as
> well (the "parallel imports" problem overlap with this one, for
> example). Various solutions have been proposed, but they either haven't
> been worked out in detail (e.g. path tokens) or have other issues (file
> id aliases).
>

Wouldn't setting a bzr:file-id property on file-add prevent this
particular scenario? That seems like the obvious strategy, and I'm
curious as to why it wouldn't be a good solution. I was planning on
doing the equivalent in bzr-tfs specifically to handle this issue.