archives & nested trees

Jan Hudec bulb at ucw.cz
Thu Nov 17 17:34:16 GMT 2005


On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 11:48:27 +1100, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 14 Nov 2005, John A Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> > If we want to go back to named archives, with named mirrors, we can. But
> > I'm certainly not settled that that is the best way to go. (For example,
> > it makes having standalone branches difficult).
> > We could make the naming optional. Where everything can be referenced by
> > full path, but if you happen to have an archive named, it can also be
> > referenced by that.
> 
> Yes, I think this may be the best way to do it.  To my mind the problem
> with arch archive naming is not so much the names, but rather that they
> propagate so strongly into revisions which are created within them, so
> causing trouble with reuse of archive names, laptop mode, etc.
> 
> If the included-by-reference branches use aliases then it's reasonable
> to expect people to register them before building.

Perhaps the include specification could state the alias and default
definitions for the alias. Bzr would use whatever it already knows about the
alias first and then try each of the provided defaults in turn until it
succeeds in fetching the data.

-- 
						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>
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