switch to weave format

[James Blackwell]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 09:47:36PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> I think we should make the weave (bzr.newformat) branch the main line
> for new development.  It is not perfect yet, but a large improvement
> over the previous format, and good enough that I think we can adopt it
> as a development version.  Robert and I have merged the code from
> bzr.dev and his bzr.integration into newformat, so it has all the
> bugfixes that have been already integrated.  I think it is
> feature-complete with everything previously mentioned.
> 
> The weave format and the inventory stored within it could be improved,
> perhaps by going to an append-only weave, but I think it's better to
> switch now and then do that work.
> 
> >From this point onwards I'd ask people to write any submissions
> against the new format.  I will make a copy of the bzr.dev branch and
> move the new format into bzr.dev, so by pulling from there you'll get
> the new code.  You'll then need to upgrade any branches.
> 
> I'm going to keep bzr itself in the old format just for a few more
> days and probably upgrade the branch around the end of this week. 
> First of all I'm going to fix the bad branch/clone performance of the
> new format and then merge some of the pending patches.
> 
> --
> Martin
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