[RFC] Revision id aliases

[Aaron Bentley]

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Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> And even that aside, it's too heavyweight for *ME*.  If *I* have to
> craft up emails just to commit, I'll put it off until I give up.

The way I submit is 'bzr pqm-submit<ENTER>'.  John Meinel's pqm-submit
plugin does all the crafting for me.

>>From where I sit, PQM looks like a hack to get around the lack of a
> smart server.

I think you may be sitting in the wrong place.  PQM is valuable even
when we do have a smart server, because it lets you set policies for
what can be committed and what will be rejected.  Heck, you can even
munge the data, like stripping tabs, changing newlines, etc.

> A smart and flexible and imaginative hack, maybe, but
> still an enormous hunk of both computational and human overhead
> compared to just typing "bzr ci" like $DEITY intended.

I think it really depends on what tradeoffs you want to make.

Aaron
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