Thoughts on file ids

[Francis Devereux]

On 17 May 2011, at 01:53, Robert Collins wrote:
> 
> In particular I think you will want tests for the various pathologies
> on merge that both git and hg suffer from (and we don't) - it would be
> a darn shame to generalise bzr to work more efficiently with those
> systems by downgrading its behaviour to match them.

As a user I would be very interested to hear what those merge pathologies are, if someone has time to explain them. At work we are selecting the VCS for a new project and are probably going to choose hg or git but we still have time to change our minds and I'd much rather find out why bzr is better than the others before instead of after we've made our decision! (so far my attitude has been "as long as it's a DVCS it'll be way better than what we have now (svn)")

Francis