> I don't know, if the problem really changes that much. How do
> you pick a globally unique inode number for a file?
Use <emailaddress>@locallyuniq. Every
developer should have an email, right? :-)
> And then
> how do you reconcile this when people on 2 different branches create
> the same file and want to merge their versions together?
That's conflict, and user interaction is
neccessary at this point.
Pavel
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