Comment 2 for bug 201409

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 201409] Re: pulling a loom resets to last-recorded state

On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 15:06 +0000, John A Meinel wrote:
> Something does seem a little fishy here.
>
> It seems like maybe doing a "bzr record" first would make sure that the
> loom state is set on disk and then the pull wouldn't overwrite it.
>
> Regardless, it would seem that "bzr pull" shouldn't smash the target
> loom record. Just like we do now with file contents, 'pull' preserves
> local modifications.

Definitely a bug; it should set the basis loom to the pulled one, and
the current loom be 3-way merged with the changes from basis to new
basis. Basically the same as for working trees, and I would expect this
to come when 'merge' really merges the looms.

-Rob
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