[MERGE][0.15] Hide commands for nested trees.

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 16:34 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
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> Robert Collins wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 12:14 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> >> I think the state of nested trees in 0.15 is too raw to encourage their
> >> use by normal users.
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> >> This patch hides the commands specific to nested trees, moves the NEWS
> >> item from IMROVEMENTS to INTERNALS, and improves their documentation.
> > 
> > This isn't quite complete, because a knit3 repo will 'just enable' them
> > anyway.
> > 
> > We should disable 'tree-reference' detection by altering
> > WorkingTree4._kind, if we want to prevent people using nested trees.
> > That will force a format bump later to enable it, of course.
> 
> True.  I thought that it was enough to merely discourage, rather than
> forbidding.  But if you think we should make it impossible, we can do
> that, too.  In order for me to keep working on them, we'd need to add
> WorkingTree5 pretty much right away.

I'd actually prefer that we dont discourage people. Instead we say that
it is not yet support - say that in the help and the release notes - but
that it /can/ be used and feedback (on new bugs) is appreciated; we can
assign a tag in the bug tracker for nested tree bugs, and give people a
canned search link in the release notes.

I'm pretty sure if this goes out enabled, that someone will blog about
how to do it ;).

Rob
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