Re: [Monotone-devel] resolving name conflicts; file suturing vs drop

[William Uther]

On 09/05/2008, at 9:16 PM, Markus Schiltknecht wrote:

> William Uther wrote:

[snip]

> > Given that, I don't see how you get node I.  In that case I would  
> > expect that node I would collect all the changes to node ids 1, 2  
> > or 3.  If you have DieDieDie merge, then the fact that you've  
> > killed node 1 would kill the other nodes?
>
> It has killed node id 2. The difference is, that the merger will  
> have to track contents across node ids, but not aliveness.

Oh.  Hrm.  Have to think about that one.  What happens if you delete  
both nodes 1 and 2, does that automatically delete node 3?  It would  
be consistent if the answer was 'no', but some might find that  
surprising.

Be well,

Will        :-}