Comment 5 for bug 377519
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| Tim Penhey (thumper) wrote Re: [Bug 377519] Re: Stacked on location breaks if the stacked upon branch is renamed | #5 |
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On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:53:02 Andrew Bennetts wrote:
> An alternative fix would be for Launchpad's code hosting server to store
> the immutable database ID rather than the mutable string in the
> branch.conf file. This would require intercepting reads and writes to
> that file to transparently rewrite that setting (similar to how paths are
> translated on the fly when resolving paths to files/dirs on disk), and of
> course migrating the existing files. This would have the advantage of
> working instantaneously, and it would not require changing a potentially
> large number of stacked branches in reaction to a single branch renaming.
Andrew, any help you could offer with regard to this solution would be awesome.
AFAIK the reason that we didn't do this is that we didn't know how to do it.