Re: More History comments

Tansley, Robert wrote:

>This looks fine, until you actually try and change something.  Say I add a new bitstream, BITS2, to BND1.  I've shown this in that nasty orange colour.  This obviously consistutes a change in BND1; you can't just draw another hasPart arc between BND1:1 and BITS2:1, since you would never be able to tell that BND1 in one situation contained only BITS1.  So, you create a new situation for BND1, called BND1:2, and have hasPart arcs between that and BITS1:1 and BITS2:1.  (This assumes that the situation of BITS1 is not changed by virtue of the fact that the Bundle it is in has changed.)
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This is only a problem for content based identifiers (see my rambling 
answer to Mark).  When using resource identifiers the two instances of 
BND1:1 are distinct, so there is no confusion between the two chains.

Collapsing all nodes that have the same contents by using content based 
identifiers is an invalid optimization, as this use case shows (among 
others.)

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