[RFC] bzr convert

[Aaron Bentley]

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Martin Pool wrote:
> On 8/20/07, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 18:32 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
>>> Perhaps it would be nice to have a convert command:
>> That would be nice.
> 
> That sounds good, though I would also have expected it would do
> conversion from some other system into bzr.

bzr transform?
bzr transmogrify?
bzr transmute?
bzr transfigure?

> This is also a bit like 'checkout', 'bind', etc which change the type
> of thing you have in a directory, so perhaps it should be unified with
> them from the user's perspective.

Yes, the idea would be to specify what you want, and the Bazaar would
turn what you have into what you want.

> And maybe this should also be where the remove-wt function lives.

Well, let's implement the replacement first, and then see if people
scream when we deprecate remove-tree.

Aaron
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