On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Mike-HMSE Brannigan wrote:
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> Brandon Metcalf says :
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> > It doesn't make sense that I can create /main/0 when I don't master
> > main, but I can't create /main/nms_dev/0
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> As I see it, there is a difference, and it does make sense : On a
> new element, both sites can create /main/0, at exactly the same point
> in the elements vtree (the root). [...]
Or, to put in short: /main/0 is the _only_ place in the whole version tree
where you are _guaranteed_by_definition_ to not have a merge conflict. It
is by definition an empty file.
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