Format Option

[Eugene Wee]

Hi,

Ah, okay, it is much clearer now. Thanks to Martin, John and Aaron for 
the clarification.

Thanks,
Eugene Wee

Aaron Bentley wrote:
> 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