RFC: naming of the 'record' command in the loom plugin

Aaron Bentley aaron at aaronbentley.com
Tue Feb 26 21:39:24 GMT 2008


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John Yates wrote:
> On Monday, February 25, 2008 Aaron Bentley wrote:
> 
>> To date, our command for converting from one branch format to
>> another has been "upgrade" (even when it's actually a downgrade).
> 
> To me this is not a format change -- from the end user's
> perspective mostly a question improved efficency and access
> to new functionality -- but rather a choice of workflow.  So
> I see choosing to loomify or not as being akin to choosing
> to work in a lightweight-checkout.

Well, there is some merit to that.  But it *is* a format, and it can
affect various things related to branch format:
- - bzr info
- - bzr upgrade
- - push location mechanism
- - parent location mechanism
- - last_revision mechanism

Aaron
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