[RFC] knitpacks-richroot (was: Re: Feedback on migration to bzr)

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at samba.org
Tue Oct 30 15:48:45 GMT 2007


Am Dienstag, den 30.10.2007, 09:16 -0400 schrieb Aaron Bentley:
> Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 08:06:18AM -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> > I would still like to propose a --knitpacks-richroot format or
> > something, for use by bzr-svn, if subtrees are some time off. The
> > watershed has to happen at some point in time anyway, may as well be now.
> As a non-default format, I think this would be fine.  AIUI, it's trivial
> to introduce new knitpack formats when only the serializer is different.
> 
> Putting it in soon would reduce the effect of the watershed as the
> format becomes more common.  I'm somewhat inclined to emit a warning at
> init time about its incompatibility with older bzrs.
Yeah, indeed; warning makes sense. I guess I'll have a look at adding
such a format then. Any objections or suggestions for the name of such a
format? Also, there's no need for a knit-variant of this format, is
there?

Cheers,

Jelmer

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