[RFC] make all-in-one formats upgrade-only

John Arbash Meinel john at arbash-meinel.com
Mon Jun 25 21:58:59 BST 2007


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Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just managed to waste a good few hours trying to sort out why bundle
> format 4 didn't work with weave repositories.
> 
> The good news is that format 4 *does* work with weave repositories.  So
> long as you use "metaweave", not "weave".  Our all-in-one formats don't
> support that the update command, but the bundle test suite relies on it.
> 
> The metadir formats were introduced with Bazaar 0.8, a bit more than a
> year ago.  It seems like the all-in-one formats don't have good test
> coverage, and without that, I think it makes sense to relegate them to
> upgrade-only status.
> 
> Aaron

I would be okay with it, though I don't understand why the bundle test suite
would rely on having 'update' work.

John
=:->

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