On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Robert Bradshaw
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>  On Apr 21, 2008, at 10:53 AM, William Stein wrote:
>
>  > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:51 AM, mabshoff
>  > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  >>
>  >>  Hi,
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>> Could you "rebase" the entire Sage repo so it has the new hashes,
>  >>> then included
>  >>> it for Sage-3.0 :-)  If we're going to make a massive change like
>  >>> that, 3.0 would
>  >>> be the time to do it.  Or does that request make no sense?
>  >>
>  >>  We will likely have the same problem every time we merge heads if I
>  >>  understand the problem correctly. We also have about 40 patches
>  >>  outstanding [at any given time it seems - the number seems to
>  >>  oscillate around 40] and all of those would need to be rebased.
>  >> Since
>  >>  the repo-as-text is a very specific case and in case it would
>  >> have to
>  >>  be redone after each branch merge I see little benefit to do it.
>  >>
>  >
>  > I'll let Robert answer, but he said "Yes, they changed the way they do
>  > hashing,",
>  > and I'm proposing somehow updating our repo so that throughout it uses
>  > their new way of doing hashing.  I'm not proposing something that
>  > would
>  > happen more than once.
>  >
>  > William
>
>  Yes, I could. This would mean that no pre-3.0 bundles would apply to
>  post-3.0 (short of re-basing the bundles--and the big one (coercion)
>  I could rebase myself). Patches should be just fine, and most things
>  aren't big enough to warrant bundles. Does anyone know if mercurial
>  1.0 changed how hashing is done (yet again) or is it finally stable?
>  If so I think this would be a good thing to do.
>

Well this is definitely the right *time* to do it.

william

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