Format Option

[Aaron Bentley]

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John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Eugene Wee wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> is there any difference between --dirstate-tags and
>> --dirstate-with-subtree? The 0.15rc1 email recommends the latter if one
>> wants to use tags. However, it seems to me that --dirstate-tags is more
>> user friendly, so it could have been part of an update for rc2 or rc3
>> and is now recommended. Is this the case?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eugene Wee
> 
> --dirstate-tags was introduced in a later rc and is indeed the
> recommended method for using tags. It is a smaller format change from
> --dirstate-with-subtree, which doesn't introduce some of the
> incompatible features (but still introduces tags).

To put a finer point on it: if you use dirstate-tags, you can convert
your data into formats readable by clients as old as 0.7.  If you use
dirstate-with-subtree, only 0.15 and later will ever be able to read
your data.

Aaron
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