Bzr Vs baz/tla repos formats

[John A Meinel]

Martin Pool wrote:
> On 12/09/05, Dhruva Krishnamurthy (RBIN/EDI3) *
> <Dhruva.Krishnamurthy at in.bosch.com> wrote:
>
>>        Is there any plan to enable "bzr" to read "baz/tla" repository
>>directly (seamlessly) without using an inderect way of using tools like
>>"tailor" in the future?
>
>
> It might be possible.  I don't think anyone plans to do it at the
> moment.  Of course there is baz2bzr and tailor to do a one-off
> conversion.

Actually, in working with Aaron, I believe baz2bzr can implement a
continually updating arch->bzr gateway. (You just tell it to use a
branch you already have).

>
> Is there some particular reason you wanted it?
>
> It does not look like there is much interest in continuing to maintain
> the tla codebase so conversion to bzr sometime is probably the best
> bet.
>

I think there is some possibility of different back-end storage methods
(hence the Storage/Branch objects). I have certainly thought about
implementing an Arch-style backend for storage, since that would let you
keep the atomicity guarantees. And would work pretty well as a push
target (it would work rather poorly as a working directory as we have
found out).

But that really has to wait until the other low-hanging fruit has been
plucked. (And with baz/tla being a little deprecated, it makes it less
useful to create the backend).

John
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