Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: 3-way merge considered harmful

[K. Richard Pixley]

Nathaniel Smith wrote:

If you collapse all of the directories into an archive resembling a 
normalized "ls -iR" [...]
    

Sure, you can write down a textual representation of this information.
manifests and change_set's more or less are such a representation.

The problem isn't that it's impossible, it's that it doesn't actually
help solve any of the problems we need to solve, as far as I can tell.

Ok.  Such as?

--rich