Branch configuration

John Arbash Meinel john at arbash-meinel.com
Tue Jan 24 22:04:22 GMT 2006


Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
> 
>>>On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 15:22 -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>This was an old discussion back when Robert & I wrote push at the same
>>>>time. I think he *didn't* want the push target to be copied when doing a
>>>>'cp -ar' which is why he put it in ~/.bazaar/branches.conf
>>>
>>>
>>>Right. Making a new branch by cp or 'bzr branch' should discard
>>>transient data.
> 
> 
> And I disagree.  Making a new branch by cp already behaves differently
> from making a branch by bzr branch.  If you use cp, you're saying "I
> want a branch that behaves the same in every respect".
> 
> Furthermore, designing for cp means that you lose flexability in other
> ways.  When I bzr branch from bzr.dev, it would be rather cool if it set
> the submit-location to the PQM one.  I think it's useful for the list of
> locations to be publically viewable.
> 
> Aaron

That was also discussed in our "submit" proposal. Where when you
branched from me, it would tell you where to submit emails to, which
could be different from where *I* submit emails to.

We never really dealt with a default push target.

John
=:->

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