On lack of support for convergence (was: Some thoughts on loom)

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 11:15 -0400, John Yates wrote:
> Rob, replying to Forest Bond, writes:
> 
> > In this case bzr can't tell that B is actually meant to be
> successive
> > work from trunk-2 aka A.
> 
> IIUC this is a consequence of bzr's current lack of support for
> convergence.

???

I'm skipping the heavily generalised part of your mail - frankly I
didn't understand it, nor do I understand what you mean by 'lack of
support for convergence'.

Bzr converges the history graph all the time. We allow precisely as much
convergence as git and hg and all the others. The diverged history that
Forest has run into with loom would occur in git and hg etc too.

Perhaps you could explain in more detail both why you think there is a
lack of _support_ for convergence here?

-Rob
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