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[Chris Davis <chrismd@xxxxxxxxx>]

I forgot to send this out a few days ago, my apologies. I have not yet
upgraded the repo to 2a format because of Sidnei's point that the order of
upgrades may be important.

Martin, do you know the details of how 2a upgrades should occur or could you
point me to a doc?

Thanks,
Chris

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 5:23 AM, Sidnei da Silva <
sidnei.da.silva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:29 AM, Chris Davis <chrismd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > In other news, our bzr repository is in dire need of an upgrade to the 2a
> > format so we can properly merge in people's branches which are all on the
> > newer format. The caveat here is that when we upgrade the repository, you
> > will have to upgrade your branches as well in order to be able to push to
> > trunk. I propose we just set a date and go for it, so how about September
> > 1st? Please let me know if you have any objections otherwise I will
> proceed
> > with the upgrade.
>
> (cc'ing Marting Pool for advice)
>
> Should we go for splitting carbon and whisper into separate branches
> as well? Apparently the way to do this is to us 'bzr split
> <directory>' which keeps all history, so merges would still be doable.
>
> Roughly what it does is to create split branches which remove all the
> files but the split directory and makes the split directory the root,
> so if you merge an existing branch into the split branch it will only
> keep the part of the merge that applies to the non-removed files.
>
> Also note there's a 'Upgrade branch' button in Launchpad which will do
> the upgrade for you. The caveat is that there's a specific order in
> which branches hosted in Launchpad need to be upgraded, which escapes
> me now. I believe it needs all branches but trunk and the 1.1 branch
> to be upgraded (since they are 'stacked on' trunk and 1.1), and only
> then you upgrade 1.1 and trunk.
>
> --
> Sidnei
>
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