[merge] rename 'knitpack' format to 'pack0.92'

Adam Mercer ramercer at gmail.com
Fri Nov 23 05:08:58 GMT 2007


On 22/11/2007, Martin Pool <mbp at sourcefrog.net> wrote:
> > How is this going to effect repositories that are already using the
> > knitpack-experimental repository format?  Will we need to "upgrade"
> > these repos, or will bazaar handle this automatically?
>
> Good question - it doesn't change the on-disk format string, so you
> won't need to touch your repositories.  It does mean your existing
> repository's format will be described differently by 'bzr info', and
> to recreate another repository in the same format you need to use the
> new name.

Great!

> (There was such a transition in the very early days of this format,
> prior to 0.92, but if you are using a pack repository with 0.92 you've
> either already done this or don't need to.)

I know, as I had a couple of repos I had to "convert" manually during
0.92dev.  I was dreading that I'd have to do the same to all the repos
I've moved over to use packs - essentially all of them!

Cheers

Adam



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