On 7/16/2015 11:12 PM, Andy Bradford wrote:
> Thus said Andy Bradford on Thu, 16 Jul 2015 20:56:57 -0600:
> 
>> Maybe  rather   than  doing  a   pull,  you  could   deconstruct  both
>> repositories,  put  the  extracted  artifacts  into  the  same  place,
>> fabricate a manifest that somehow  merges the two timelines with files
>> from both trees?
> 
> So I did both actually. I took  two projects, pulled one into the other,
> then deconstructed the new thing. I then created a manifest that had all
> the requisite  cards to ``merge''  the two independent trunks  into one,
> however, because I had a file name collision, I had to pick one of them.
> Because  they have  no common  ancestor,  I don't  think a  diff can  be
> generated.

diff'ing shouldn't require a common ancestor.  You're thinking of
merging.  merge's -baseline option lets you explicitly pick the common
ancestor, which could be either trunk's initial empty check-in.

-- 
Andy Goth | <andrew.m.goth/at/gmail/dot/com>

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