[RFC] metaweave format

Martin Pool mbp at sourcefrog.net
Wed May 3 14:16:55 BST 2006


On 03/05/2006, at 11:07 PM, Olaf Conradi wrote:

> On 03/05/06, Martin Pool <mbp at sourcefrog.net> wrote:
>> On 30/04/2006, at 2:08 AM, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>> > It is a little bit long, but I think it is honest.
>>
>> I agree that's better; just to be a bit more clear I would say
>>
>>    Specify the format for this branch. Current options are: default,
>> knit,
>>    metaweave, and weave.  The default is knit; metaweave and weave
>> are deprecated.
>
>
> Does this imply a +1 for my patch rename metadir to default and
> introduce metaweave?
>
> http://deschacht.student.utwente.nl/bzr/bazaar-vcs/bzr.olaf.metaweave/
>
>> > At present, we don't have a good mechanism for detailed extra  
>> help (at
>> > least that I know of). But I think that would be useful to have.
>> > It would also help us for "bzr help revision-specs", which we have
>> > long had issues with.
>>
>> That would be good, though I don't think it's needed for 0.8.
>>
>> Although many of the topics will just be simple strings I think they
>> should be defined as objects so that there is at least a possibility
>> to have them dynamically create e.g. a list of all known formats.  So
>> I would go for something more like the way commands are defined.
>
> So this can be introduced later. It would be a pity to rename them
> after the 0.8 release.

Yes, +1 from me for the attached patch for 0.8.  I agree we should  
get the --format names right.

-- 
Martin







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