Nested Tree Support?

[Aaron Bentley]

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Bob Tanner wrote:
> What's the status of nested tree support?
> 
> Brain Dump from 2005-10-15 
>     http://bazaar-vcs.org/NestedTreeSupport
> 
> Progress report seems to indicate support in Bazaar 0.15rc1 from 2007-05-19
>     http://bazaar-vcs.org/NestedTreeProgress

The internals do support nested trees.  To create them, do

$ bzr init --dirstate-with-subtree foo
$ bzr init --dirstate-with-subtree foo/bar
$ bzr join --reference foo/bar
$ bzr status --short foo
+N  bar+

However, support is not polished enough that we would actually recommend
using them.  If it breaks, you get to keep both pieces.

So the dirstate-with-subtree format is a hidden format, and equally the
split and join commands are hidden.

> If the native support is indeed in 0.15rc1 then:
> 
> Misleading wiki page stating to use Config Manager for Nested Trees on
> 2006-09-05
>     http://bazaar-vcs.org/ConfigManager

No, that is still a reasonable choice.  Config Manager is what I use.

Aaron
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