Re: [Monotone-devel] multiple (3+) ancestors

[Timothy Brownawell]

On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 11:20 -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On 2/9/07, Timothy Brownawell <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 10:53 -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > > On 2/8/07, Markus Schiltknecht <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > http://www.venge.net/monotone/wiki/MultiParentWorkspaceFallout on the
> > > > wiki currently states: "A revision can't have more than two parents."
> > > > While Graydon recently answered me, that monotone itself does not pose
> > > > such a limit.
> > >
> > > Graydon is mistaken.  revision_t::check_sane() [...]
> >
> > That's not a limitation of monotone, just our current code. There's no
> > real reason not to remove that limitation...
> 
> ... I don't see a good reason *to* remove that limitation, though.  I
> call YAGNI.

I think its certainly possible that it'd be useful for whatever trust
scheme we come up with to be able to directly record any n-parent merges
that were needed instead of having to split them up. Of course, whether
it's convenient enough to go to all that trouble would be a different
question, that even more has to wait until we actually know what we're
doing...


-- 
Timothy

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