When merging two branches without common ancestry, Bazaar provides no means to map file IDs

Bug #318620 reported by David Strauss
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This bug affects 22 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Bazaar
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned
Breezy
In Progress
High
Jelmer Vernooij

Bug Description

Here's a scenario Bazaar should support:

* A user downloads Drupal 6.6, extracts it, and starts a project.
* The user runs bzr init, bzr add, and bzr commit to version control the project.
* The user needs to upgrade Drupal and discovers that a Bazaar branch exists for releases of Drupal core.
* The user merges from the foreign branch (specifying revnos the first time) to upgrade Drupal and create common ancestry.
* Future upgrade merges are easy.

Right now, doing this creates massive numbers of conflicts because the user's own branch and the foreign branch have different file IDs. Bazaar ought to allow a merge option that "merges in" the file IDs from the foreign branch if paths identify the unique files, which is the case when "merging in" a Drupal upgrade.

Tags: merge
Changed in bzr:
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
David Strauss (davidstrauss) wrote :
Martin Pool (mbp)
Changed in bzr:
importance: Undecided → Medium
Martin Pool (mbp)
tags: added: merge
Revision history for this message
Martin Pool (mbp) wrote :

Maybe for udd?

Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)
tags: added: check-for-breezy
Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)
Changed in brz:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
assignee: nobody → Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)
status: Triaged → In Progress
tags: removed: check-for-breezy
Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)
Changed in brz:
milestone: none → 3.0.0
Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)
Changed in brz:
milestone: 3.0.0 → 3.1.0
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