From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 05:52:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Couple of read-tree questions
Message-ID: <7vzmqx1gi4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vll2h4bc8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

>> Why does --emu23 use I+H for stage 2, rather than just I? Wouldn't this 
>> just reintroduce removed files?
>
> They are not "removed files", at least in the original context.
>
> The original intention was...

Gmane turns out to be better remembering things than my faulty
memory.  The thread beginning here is a good summary of the
thinking behind the current design:

	http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/4737