[MERGE/RFC] Un-hide split command

Aaron Bentley aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca
Mon Dec 17 16:56:53 GMT 2007


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Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> Am Montag, den 17.12.2007, 10:04 -0500 schrieb Aaron Bentley:

>> Since rich-root is a watershed, I could be convinced that it should
>> error if the tree is not already in a format that supports rich roots
>> (rich-root, dirstate-with-subtrees, rich-root-pack, etc).  Any strong
>> opinions?

> One of the nice things about Bazaar is that it allows the user to make
> the tradeoff between new features and backwards compatibility. Silently
> upgrading would take that choice away from the (unknowing) user.

I guess I wonder whether people will just upgrade without realizing that
they're breaking backwards compatibility.  Then it just becomes another
"why didn't bzr just do that for me?" question.

Aaron
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