On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Terry Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I think it could have been done with git.


​Of course it could have.​



> I wonder if some variation
> ​ ​
> of the above was what caused the problem in the first place - the
> possibility I only just thought of being "No to all" when "Yes to all"
> was more appropriate.  Wondering if that could cause both branches to
> have the same hash, and lead to them collapsing together.
>

​Git would be broken if that were true.

I did do something slightly strange earlier.  I untracked the sqlite-format
branch, as described ​here
<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3046436/how-do-you-stop-tracking-a-remote-branch-in-git>.
I did this because I was getting fast-forward errors.  It's all pretty
strange.

> The big question is, how to make sure the present master code forms
> > the basis of important branches?  I'm not sure that a merge from
> > master to sqlite-format will do the trick.  In other words, I suspect
> > that sqlite-format is dangerous, through no fault of Vitalije.
>
> I don't see any reason for concern.  The sqlite-format branch is still
> pointing to a commit before the discontinuity, and I just tested (post
> 3a9e54e) checking it out, merging master, committing, switching back to
> master, committing.  Nothing seemed to go wrong, branches remained
> separate.
>

​Thanks for this test.

Edward

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