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[Michael Hudson <michael.hudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gary Poster wrote:
> 
> On Aug 26, 2009, at 11:22 PM, Michael Hudson wrote:
> 
>> This may count as a bzr wart, but I've noticed a few times that the
>> revno of lp-dev-utils trunk flapping all over the place, probably
>> because people are getting their changes into trunk by pushing from
>> their branch (possibly after merging trunk) directly into trunk, rather
>> than merging into a local copy of trunk, committing, and pushing that.
>>
>> Please stop doing this.
>>
>> There are two main reasons, IMHO:
>>
>> 1) It makes the revno of lp-dev-utils trunk you are running a much less
>> useful piece of information.
>>
>> 2) It means that you end up with "merge from trunk" in 'bzr log' rather
>> than a nice neat listing of the motivations for the changes to trunk.
>>
>> I've just set the 'append_revisions_only' property on the
>> lp:~launchpad/lp-dev-utils/trunk, which should make bzr refuse to push a
>> feature branch over a trunk branch (well, to be specific, when the tip
>> of the pushed-to branch is not in the lefthand ancestry of the branch
>> you are pushing).
> 
> Thanks Michael.  I've been guilty of this here and elsewhere.  How do we
> set that property for other branches?

Unfortunately there's no UI for setting this after the branch has been
created (at some point someone, maybe me, will get around to adding a
flag to reconfigure).  I set it using bzrlib in the python interpreter.

Cheers,
mwh