On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote:

> I'll try to improve the situation moving forward.  But to be honest, right
> now I'm having a hard time trying to figure out what it should be doing in a
> lot of these scenarios.
>

Indeed, a 'revert' put me back into a working state :).

My assumption was that this particular constellation of actions is
associated with a big fat can of worms and difficult philosophical
questions, but i was hoping you had already answered them during the
implementation ;). i'm not surprised that there are still-open corner cases
with this mix of commands.

Here's a thought:  Perhaps instead of disallowing all updates if there is an
> uncommitted merge, perhaps only disallow updates to other branches.  So if
> you do a  merge, you can still update to descendents (thus pulling in
> changes that others have committed ahead of you).  Such a feature would have
> kept you out of trouble in the first place, in the scenario above....
>

If you think that will work. i'm pretty clueless when it comes to the
details of artifact tracking, and can't offer any helpful suggestions.

Thanks for the 'revert' tip - that did the trick.

-- 
----- stephan beal
http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/
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