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

[Martin Pool]

On 6/26/07, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:

> 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.

+1 from me.  I think Robert was asking about this the other day.
Dapper has a version of bzr which uses a knit format fwiw.

-- 
Martin