[MERGE] [PACKS] renaming of experimental to knitpack

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Thu Oct 25 03:59:06 BST 2007


On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 12:33 +1000, Ian Clatworthy wrote:

bb:resubmit

When we discussed this on IRC I thought it would just be
'--format=knitpack-experimental'.

I don't object to the larger change, but I don't see what it really buys
us, and it has lost us some things: you haven't altered info to flag
this as experimental in the UI, and not having experimental in the name
means people won't know if they follow a blog post that its experimental
at all, or ever, until we tell them *after* they hit a glitch.


> 
> +    help='New in 0.92: Pack-based format with data compatible with '
> +        'dirstate-tags format repositories. Incompatible with bzr <
> 0.92. '
> +        'WARNING: This format is experimental so data in it may '
> +        'not be upgradable to release formats of bzr.', 


As far as I'm concerned, if we are encouraging people to play with this,
we should give them the same guarantee about support - that is remove
the warning about 'data may not be upgradeable'. Rather say something
like 'This format is experimental - please read the documentation in
<LINK TO THE PACK DOCO> before using.'


@@ -1721,8 +1721,8 @@
             
     def get_format_string(self):
         """See RepositoryFormat.get_format_string()."""
-        return "Bazaar Experimental subtrees\n"
+        return "Bazaar knitpack subtrees\n"
                          ^  I would capitalise this, and add 0.92 into
the format string on disk. This makes for better errors in old clients.

-Rob

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