Stacking policy

Aaron Bentley aaron at aaronbentley.com
Thu Apr 10 05:05:35 BST 2008


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Robert Collins wrote:
> I like all but 2. My only concern is that this will change the behaviour
> of:
> 
> bzr branch lp:foo foo
> bzr branch foo bar
> rm -rf foo
> 
> I think we may cause the same kind of 'history lost' situation arch had
> with 2 as it stands.

Others have raised concerns about it, too, so I'm leaving it out of my
present plans.

We do need to make branching fast for naïve users somehow.  It is a
black mark on our performance story.  But we don't necessarily have to
fix it with stacked branches.

Aaron
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