branch: Repository KnitPackRepository is not compatible with repository KnitRepository

[Ben Finney]

Aaron Bentley <aaron at aaronbentley.com> writes:

> Ben Finney wrote:
> > Why is a default 'init-repo' command in Bazaar 1.3 creating a
> > repository in a format ("pack-0.92") that cannot contain data from
> > a repository with subtrees (created with a version of Bazaar
> > around 1.0)? Shouldn't a *default* 'init-tree' be

(This should be 'init-repo', just as earlier in the paragraph.)

> > backward-compatible with repositories created by older versions?
> 
> It is backwards compatible with normal bzr repositories.
> dirstate-with-subtree was a hidden experimental format that no one was
> supposed to use.  But bzr-svn used it anyway.

It's strange that you say 'bzr-svn', because that's what everyone
seems to assume: that somehow I'd used that format deliberately for
'bzr-svn'.

In fact, I've never used 'bzr-svn' nor had any particular desire to; I
don't think I've ever even had it installed.


Nevertheless, thank you for the explanation. It helps me to phrase
another question better:

Is it unreasonable of me to expect that *any* format supported in a
Bazaar release (despite "no-one was supposed to use" it) should be
upgrade supported in later versions?

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Ben Finney