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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, yes it was my mistake.  I did merge to trunk beforehand but
didn't realize it would mess up the history; can it be undone?

On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 11:44:27PM +0200, Lionel Dricot wrote:
> Hi people,
> 
> 
> There has been a big problem with the trunk : someone accidentally
> pushed his own branch instead of the trunk. It looks like it's you,
> Bryce (but I'm not 100% sure).
> 
> This should not happen and, if it cannot be corrected, at least it
> should be reported immediately to the dev list. I'm concerned both by
> the fact that it happens and that nobody seems to care about it. Maybe
> I'm missing something here.
> 
> In fact, I don't understand why bazaar allows that kind of behavior
> which looks like it would allow some data loss. (and I don't know how
> you, guys, can do this. I have no idea on how to do it. Bzr would tell
> me that branches have diverged and that I cannot push)
> 
> Please take care in the future,
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Lionel
> 
> PS: even if there's no code loss with the current error, the fact is
> that :
> 
> 1) it's hard to prove that there was no code loss
> 2) it's nearly impossible to retrace the history
> 3) you loose every relation to where a given bug was fixed
> 4) Every current copy of the trunk become suddenly incompatible with the
> trunk, which is highly annoying.
> 
> 
> PPS: I don't want to point anyone or anything. If it's a mistake (which
> happens), it is anyway already done, I only want to be sure that it
> doesn't happen again in the future. If it's something that I don't
> understand, please explain me ;-)
> 
> 
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