WorkingTree._control_files should be public

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at samba.org
Mon Jul 24 01:01:17 BST 2006


On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 18:46 -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> https://launchpad.net/products/bzr/+bug/50919
> 
> Brings up the fact that _control_files is a private member for
> WorkingTree, though it is a public member for both Repository and Branch.
> 
> And more importantly, TreeTransform needs access to control_files,
> because it creates a 'limbo' directory.
> 
> Alternatively, we could make a function that creates a limbo directory,
> if we actually want to make all the control_files members private.
I'd personally prefer a function to obtain a limbo file. Being able to
provide _control_files on foreign branches would require a lot more
magic. Especially as _control_files on working trees is _only_ used for
limbo as far as I could determine.

Cheers,

Jelmer

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Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> - http://samba.org/~jelmer/
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