Comment 6 for bug 377519
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| Jonathan Lange (jml) wrote Re: [Bug 377519] Re: Stacked on location breaks if the stacked upon branch is renamed | #6 |
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On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Tim Penhey <email address hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:53:02 Andrew Bennetts wrote:
>> An alternative fix would be for Launchpad's code hosting server to store
>> the immutable database ID rather than the mutable string in the
>> branch.conf file. This would require intercepting reads and writes to
>> that file to transparently rewrite that setting (similar to how paths are
>> translated on the fly when resolving paths to files/dirs on disk), and of
>> course migrating the existing files. This would have the advantage of
>> working instantaneously, and it would not require changing a potentially
>> large number of stacked branches in reaction to a single branch renaming.
>
> Andrew, any help you could offer with regard to this solution would be awesome.
> AFAIK the reason that we didn't do this is that we didn't know how to do it.
>
Actually we talked about it and decided that it would be really
frikkin hard. Times change though.
jml