I'd virtually guarantee that 20 students - and only the ones running
using the apt-get fossil - did not try the --empty switch.

Unfortunately.

And when I added tags to the empty timeline they were still not mergable.

../Dave

On 11 March 2015 at 15:10, Andy Bradford <amb-fos...@bradfords.org> wrote:
> Thus said Richard Hipp on Wed, 11 Mar 2015 12:48:04 -0400:
>
>> I'm still curious as to how the  students managed to get the repo into
>> this state, too.
>
> This is possible if you open a repository using the --empty command line
> option. Basically, what you end up with when you do this are two DAGs in
> the repository,  each with  their own  independent line  of development.
> This means  that merging between the  two won't really be  possible, (or
> perhaps very  difficult) because they  are not  at all related  in their
> DAG.
>
> Did the students  use --empty (perhaps misunderstanding what  it is used
> for)?
>
> Andy
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