[Nut-upsdev] Eaton_SDK dangling branch solved

[Eric S. Raymond]

I've solved the problem of the detached Eaton_SDK branch.

What must have happened here is the branch creator did a
non-Subversion cp -r followed by an add of the target directory.
This registered a tree that duplicated trunk, *without* ancestry
information connecting it to its source revision.

The correct fix is to check each new text section against a list of
MD5 hashes of old text sections.  If I find a match, I then fill in
copyfrom_path and copyfrom_rev information so it looks (for purposes
of parent and branch computation) as though the branch creation had
been done with "svn copy".

It is a very good thing that I found this before I shipped 2.0.

rst.old remains detached, so there is still another corner case for me
to nail down.

2.0-pre5 and auxiliary files have been uploaded to

http://www.catb.org/esr/nut-conversion/nut-conversion.tar.gz

The fix for the "fossil write" bug is in this version.  Also note that
metadata modifications through mailbox_in can now match by Fossil-ID
if Event-Number is absent.
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