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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've mostly fixed it.  I fortunately had a recent copy of the tree from
rev 758.  I've merged recent changes onto it and pushed, which restores
this history up until 758.  It messes the numbers to two of Luca's
recent commits and a bunch of mine but that seems to be about it.

On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 02:50:59PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> 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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