Re: import inconsistency

[Paul Edwards]

"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu.cvs.bug/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu> wrote in message 
5l3cigbpc2.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu">news:5l3cigbpc2.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu...
> > The smallest usable patch that I see is that it could be moved
> > out of the Attic if the head is 1.1 (ie there is no 1.2) and it is
>
> My understanding is that:
>
>    head of trunk is dead  iff   file in Attic

If revision 1.1 has a state of dead, and there's no 1.2, and it
isn't in the Attic, that sounds pretty dead to me still.

> so the file location is mostly irrelevant.

You just said "iff" (if and only if) (or was it a typo?), meaning
that it is the exact opposite of irrelevant.

> The main problem is
> fixing the *content* of the RCS file.  When that's done, it can (and
> more specifically, it will have to) be moved out of the Attic.

This would potentially be a more comprehensive fix, but also
many degrees harder.

BFN.  Paul.