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diff --git a/.be/bugs/56506b73-36cc-4e32-a578-258a219edba8/comments/4068c833-0c06-475e-8b7e-6701bc416dee/body b/.be/bugs/56506b73-36cc-4e32-a578-258a219edba8/comments/4068c833-0c06-475e-8b7e-6701bc416dee/body new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d3d9d0c --- /dev/null +++ b/.be/bugs/56506b73-36cc-4e32-a578-258a219edba8/comments/4068c833-0c06-475e-8b7e-6701bc416dee/body @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +> With interfaces/email/interactive listening on the recieving end to +> grab new-bug emails and import them into an incoming bug repository. + +The email-bugs -> be-handle-mail import is based on `be import-xml`. +The current import-xml implementation allows good control over what +gets overwritten during a merge by overriding only those fields +defined in the incoming XML. + +For clients without the versioned bugdir (e.g. they installed via a +release tarball or their distro's packaging system), `be email-bugs` +will not know what fields have been changed/added/etc., so it sets +_all_ the fields in the outgoing XML. Importing that XML file will +override any changes that may have been made to the listed +bugs/comments between the release and your current source version, so +you may have to do some manual tweaking of the post-merge bugdir. + +One possible workaround would be to change the merge algorithm in +import-xml to take advantage of version information given in the XML +file. import-xml could checkout the shared root version of any +modified bugs, and compute the changes made by the remote user and +those made in the local tree. It could then merge these changes more +intelligently, by prompting the user, keeping the local changes, +keeping the remote changes, etc. + +While the more automated approach might be better, it's also more +complicated, so for now we'll stick with the simple "override all +fields defined in the XML" approach. + diff --git a/.be/bugs/56506b73-36cc-4e32-a578-258a219edba8/comments/4068c833-0c06-475e-8b7e-6701bc416dee/values b/.be/bugs/56506b73-36cc-4e32-a578-258a219edba8/comments/4068c833-0c06-475e-8b7e-6701bc416dee/values new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e77ec55 --- /dev/null +++ b/.be/bugs/56506b73-36cc-4e32-a578-258a219edba8/comments/4068c833-0c06-475e-8b7e-6701bc416dee/values @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Author: W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu> + + +Content-type: text/plain + + +Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:19:05 +0000 + + +In-reply-to: 0a995544-20dc-42a6-8d3f-348ebbc8921e + |