[PATCH] add support for marking changesets as dead

Martin Geisler mg at lazybytes.net
Tue Feb 1 10:23:13 CST 2011


Augie Fackler <durin42 at gmail.com> writes:

> On Feb 1, 2011, at 4:21 AM, Martin Geisler wrote:
>
>> Also, with pushkey, how will we solve the problem of cancelleing the
>> kill orders? If I pull from A and get meta data that says "kill X",
>> and if this is cancelled at A, then how do I know if I should push
>> the kill order back to A or if I should delete my own?
>
> You'd use pushkey to resurrect the head by deleting the dead marker
> via pushkey.

But if the dead marker is deleted in my clone to resurrect the changese,
then how do I know that I should not pull the dead marker again from a
remote repository?

With changesets, there is no question: I resurrect a changeset by
committing new live changesets along a different path.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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