Comment 11 for bug 438531

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote : Re: [Bug 438531] Re: Imported SVN repo differs from upstream repo

2009/9/30 Ted Gould <email address hidden>:
>> It seems to me like it would make more sense for "bzr diff" to not care
>> about file ids in this particular situation and work based on paths
>> rather than on file ids if that makes more sense.
>
> I don't like this option because I think that it breaks down the strong
> file concept of bazaar.  File IDs and ID tracking is something I do like
> in Bazaar and if diff hid that I think it would make things more complex
> for understanding what's going on.

I think we should at least have an option for this: people can get
into the situation of wanting to diff across files with mismatched
ids, in situations other than just bzr-svn.

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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>