Am Mittwoch, den 31.10.2007, 03:01 +1100 schrieb Robert Collins: > On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 16:48 +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > > Am Dienstag, den 30.10.2007, 09:16 -0400 schrieb Aaron Bentley: > > > Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > > > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 08:06:18AM -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote: > > > > I would still like to propose a --knitpacks-richroot format or > > > > something, for use by bzr-svn, if subtrees are some time off. The > > > > watershed has to happen at some point in time anyway, may as well be now. > > > As a non-default format, I think this would be fine. AIUI, it's trivial > > > to introduce new knitpack formats when only the serializer is different. > > > > > > Putting it in soon would reduce the effect of the watershed as the > > > format becomes more common. I'm somewhat inclined to emit a warning at > > > init time about its incompatibility with older bzrs. > > > > Yeah, indeed; warning makes sense. I guess I'll have a look at adding > > such a format then. Any objections or suggestions for the name of such a > > format? Also, there's no need for a knit-variant of this format, is > > there? > I have an objection; Nested trees are not -so far- off; AIUI Wouter has > the patch to 'make them usable', so working with him to polish it off is > IMO the best use of time. I'm happy to wait - this sort of change will have to wait to 0.93 anyway, so that would allow 4 weeks for subtrees to get finished and merged. I doubt I'll be able to contribute much - I'm not familiar with any of the subtree internals, and will be busy with exams next week and travelling the week after that. > if we're going to watershed users, lets get both the formats in. Both == dirstate-richroots and knitpack-richroots ? Cheers, Jelmer -- Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@xxxxxxxxx> - http://samba.org/~jelmer/ Jabber: jelmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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