0.8 release plans

[Martin Pool]

On  9 Feb 2006, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy at imag.fr> wrote:
> Martin Pool <mbp at sourcefrog.net> writes:
> 
> >  * (what else? please reply)
> 
> Has anything been decided for the .bzr/ Vs _bzr/ question?
> 
> _bzr is more Windows-friendly, and has the advantage of being visible
> in a repository without working tree (currently, the directory created
> by bzr push seems to be empty if you don't look carefully).
> 
> That's a trivial change, but I suppose it has to be either implemented
> before 0.8, or rejected forever.

As I recall there are three options:

 [a] always use .bzr as at present

 [b] always use _bzr (or BZR or {bzr} or some such)

 [c] probe for either .bzr or _bzr, and use whichever exists

I think on Unix people like to have the option to keep the metadata
hidden so [b] is not really going to work, and anyhow would be a
disruptive transition.

The main objection to [c] seems to be that you need one extra remote
request up front to determine which one it is.

So if someone would like to prepare a *testable* patch which handles
both I'd be happy to bring it in for 0.8.

-- 
Martin
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