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Ancestor FC fixing rfc

sposs edited this page Mar 8, 2013 · 1 revision

Currently, when a file is deleted, the Ancestor/daughter business does not work any more because a file in the chain is missing. When a file is being deleted, it's necessary to fix somehow the relationships. There are 2 options:

  1. either the relationship is simply removed and the depth is unchanged: a file would then have
file1 1 
  file2 2
    file4 4

in the case file3 was removed

  1. the relationship is removed, and the depth is fixed, such that in the example above, one would have
file1 1 
  file2 2
    file4 3

in the case file3 was removed.

I would be in favor of 2...

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