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[Danilo Šegan <danilo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

У уто, 20. 04 2010. у 12:05 +0100, Jonathan Lange пише:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We keep seeing different problems with our UI and user interaction when a
> > branch has been registered (in the database) but not created (on
> > codehosting).
> 
> Yes. We should just prevent people from registering hosted branches.
> It creates a heap of problems and doesn't solve any that I can see.
> See https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-code/+bug/288645
> 
> > People not familiar with distributed version control fail to
> > figure out how to start a branch.  Project owners set up translations
> > exports to nonexistent branches.
> 
> I am familiar with DVCS and I think I'd be tripped up by this one. Why
> doesn't the translations exporter create a new branch?

It's wrong for us to decide what to base the branch on: the series
branch or empty branch?  If it's easy enough for people to fix what our
set-up has done (how many people are familiar with 'bzr push
--overwrite'? does help about it show up when you try to push an
unrelated branch?), we can probably fall back on the simpler option of
just creating a branch.

Cheers,
Danilo