I mean: Let the programmer choose if it's needed or not. What's the problem
with that? You can popup a dialog "Look gosh, I don't find the previous
version, if do you really care you can abort the operation. Want to abort?"
If I'm merging or diffing or loading is not the point. A source control tool
should give the control to the programmer *not* to the program.

2007/5/16, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>:
>
>
> On May 16, 2007, at 23:52 , j blatter wrote:
>
> > Suppose you have a Monticello repository with
> >
> > Xxxx-in.6   <---- this is what you want to load
> > Xxxx-in.4   <---- this is what you have now loaded
> > Xxxx-in.3
> > ...
> >
> > Error: Could not find version ' Xxxx-in.5'. Maybe you need to add a
> > repository?
> >
> > hey, not at all son.
> > What's the problem if I haven't the 5th ? That's not an Error, I
> > don't care for the 5th, it's lost, so it'd be a Notification don't
> > you think so?
>
> Depends on what you tried to do. For merging and diffing this version
> might actually be needed.
>
> - Bert -
>
>
>
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