[Monotone-devel] Re: How do I merge 2 unrelated branches into 1 ?

[Bruce Stephens]

"Dmitry Kakurin" <address@hidden> writes:

> The way I understood it: every directory has a unique GUID, so my CS
> directories have same names but different GUIDs and they are not
> related (for Monotone).

Directories and files, I believe.  But they're not GUIDs: the
information's purely local.  (So they're unlike GNU Arch's "tags", for
example.)

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> I also wonder why keeping track of dirs is necessary. Perforce (for
> example) gets away with only keeping track of files and creates dirs
> on demand.

Monotone did that (pre 0.26).  It turned out that tracking directories
as well would make some things better.

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