Re: import inconsistency

[Pierre Asselin]

Paul Edwards <kerravon@nosppaam.w3.to> wrote:
> "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu.cvs.bug/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu> wrote in 
> message 5ly907faoe.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu">news:5ly907faoe.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu...
>>
>> I have no idea which inconsistency you're referring to.

> A tinpot branch who gets in first, causes the file to stay in the
> Attic forever, which means exception coding forever.

Maybe the solution is for import to change

    1.1 (dead, empty)
        1.1.2.1 (live)

into

    1.1 (dead, empty)
        1.1.2.1 (live)
    1.2 (live)
        1.2.1.1 (live, no delta from 1.2)

with the RCS -b branch pointing to 1.2.1 instead of the usual 1.1.1 .

Is this feasible?  Or is 1.1.1 hard-coded all over the place?

Paul, the imported file would now be live on the trunk (Attic or no Attic)
instead of dead on the trunk.  Would that solve your problem, the one
that forces you in to "exception coding" ?