On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 08:30 +0000, Vincent Ladeuil wrote:
> Good to see that bug caught.
>
> Yet, shouldn't the long term plan *accept* these paths ?
>
> I'm mostly thinking about conversions from foreign VCS here.
> We already encouter the problem in such contexts.
>
> So may be we need a way to address the issue by accepting the
> path and *renaming* it on the fly in some canonical way that
> allows tracking further changes on it ?
Follow up to the bug please :). I suggest repeating this particular
comment there, as the merge proposal will be invisible to others wanting
to think about this, now that its landed.
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 08:30 +0000, Vincent Ladeuil wrote:
> Good to see that bug caught.
>
> Yet, shouldn't the long term plan *accept* these paths ?
>
> I'm mostly thinking about conversions from foreign VCS here.
> We already encouter the problem in such contexts.
>
> So may be we need a way to address the issue by accepting the
> path and *renaming* it on the fly in some canonical way that
> allows tracking further changes on it ?
Follow up to the bug please :). I suggest repeating this particular
comment there, as the merge proposal will be invisible to others wanting
to think about this, now that its landed.
-Rob