[osmosis-dev] Sorting (and test whining)

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Brett Henderson wrote:
>> This was necessary in order to process replicate diffs which sometimes 
>> contain the same object twice, causing the old implementation to 
>> complain about change streams "not being sorted" (as "being sorted", 
>> for Osmosis, means that every object has to be greater than the 
>> previous).

> Which task was complaining?  I had intended to create a new task which 
> would take a (sorted) change stream with full changes and collapse them 
> into a single change per entity.  This new task would allow existing 
> tasks such as --apply-change to continue to be used as is.

In my case it was --merge-changes which complained. I had downloaded 
some changes with --rri, and later did the same thing again and wanted 
to merge the two before then processing the unified result with osm2pgsql.

Bye
Frederik