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[Lionel Dricot <ploum@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for that Bryce :-)

Do you know how you did to make this mistake ? How can we avoid it in
the future ? Does it worth reporting a bug against bzr for that ?


Lionel


Le dimanche 23 mai 2010 à 15:27 -0700, Bryce Harrington a écrit :
> 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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