How about looking into
fossil test-shortest-path
and see how it follows the path of revisions. ?
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 9:04 AM, E. Timothy Uy <t...@loqu8.com> wrote:
> Thank you, that is helpful information.
>
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 11:52 PM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 7:07 AM, E. Timothy Uy <t...@loqu8.com> wrote:
>>
>> > The problem is ultimately not time-warps. DRH can confirm - the problem
>> is
>> > actually inside fossil and sqlite.fossil. Very early on in sqlite.fossil
>> > there are entries in the plink table where the parent id (pid) is greater
>> > than the commit id (cid). There are over a thousand of these.
>>
>>
>> Those IDs are _transient_, not part of the historical record. The "child ID
>> comes before parent ID" behaviour also appears on completely benign repos
>> (i've seen it before in my own while testing libfossil).
>>
>>
>>
>> > If I had more brain cells, I could perhaps invent a way to efficiently
>> use
>> > the plink table to generate the proper export list where parents always
>> > come before children regardless of mtime.
>> >
>>
>> i've also attempted something similar in libfossil, but haven't been
>> successful. The RIDs cannot be used to figure it out, and neither can
>> mtime. The only 100% reliable way i know of traversing the history is to
>> read each manifest, as the P-cards give us that piece of context we need to
>> know the ordering.
>>
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