On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 04:10 +0000, John A Meinel wrote:
>
> Now, it is also possible that we have a bug. For example, what if
> 'heads()' was giving incorrect information, and causing us to generate
> a
> new revision for texts that didn't actually need it. That would also
> point to a lot of the other issues you've been seeing.
>
> Certainly it is worth investigating. Though I'd also be curious as to
> why we haven't been seeing this with other projects.
I wonder if the repeated-merge-from-branch pattern is implicated.
We do have tests for not making new heads we don't need, but its
possible there is a bug.
I'm not sure if we'd show any output when that happens..
On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 04:10 +0000, John A Meinel wrote:
>
> Now, it is also possible that we have a bug. For example, what if
> 'heads()' was giving incorrect information, and causing us to generate
> a
> new revision for texts that didn't actually need it. That would also
> point to a lot of the other issues you've been seeing.
>
> Certainly it is worth investigating. Though I'd also be curious as to
> why we haven't been seeing this with other projects.
I wonder if the repeated- merge-from- branch pattern is implicated.
We do have tests for not making new heads we don't need, but its
possible there is a bug.
I'm not sure if we'd show any output when that happens..
-Rob