[Imports] Sorting changes

[Andy Allan]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:

> Which brings up a good point -- why is it that data from changesets that are
> not closed show up on the API at all? If someone is in the middle of PUTting
> 1000s of nodes, followed by 100s of ways and relations, none of that data
> should show up until they explicitly call the changeset/close API call.

Because changesets are, by design and intention, not atomic.

If you want an atomic upload, then you should use diff uploads.

Cheers,
Andy