Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: how to merge trees

[Bruce Stephens]

address@hidden writes:

> This is why I think directories should contain some form of UID for
> the files in them not just the file name.

I could imagine that making the code a bit easier to follow, rather
than having it try to regenerate file identities in the way that
Nathaniel is describing.  I suspect there's a danger of the UIDs
escaping, and users wanting to do things with them, and I'm not sure
that that would be good.  Also I guess there's a conversion problem if
we imagine the UIDs being shared between repositories: you'd want to
make sure that everyone agreed on the UIDs.

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