branch: Repository KnitPackRepository is not compatible with repository KnitRepository

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Ben Finney wrote:
| John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:
|
|> Ben Finney wrote:
|>> John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:
|>>> Actually, the format was not listed by 'bzr help init-repo' it
|>>> was a hidden format that the user would have to have other
|>>> knowledge to even know that it existed.
|>> That "other knowledge" came in <URL:irc://chat.freenode.net/#bzr>
|>> in response to a request for help that is now long-forgotten.
|> Well, my IRC log talks about it at the end of February:
|
| That's when I discussed the problems that (I later learned) are caused
| by the  repository format. The conversion to that format was done much
| earlier; around a year ago (early 2007).
|
|> I probably have some gaps in my IRC coverage, but I don't find
|> anyone recommending that you upgrade to --rich-root-pack or
|> --dirstate-subtree since the beginning of 2007.
|
| I don't have the reference either. I know only that it was a
| recommendation that I upgrade the repository to the format
| 'dirstate-with-subtree' (judging by the format name the repository has
| reported recently).
|
| My assumption at the time was that if Bazaar supported it and
| successfully converted to it, then the format would at least not be a
| dead-end. That assumption proved unfounded.
|

It isn't specifically a dead end. You should be able to convert it to a
'rich-root-pack' today. There may be some small bugs in converting from it,
which we are trying to fix for the next format. We need a new format for other
reasons, so we feel like the development effort needs to be focused there. It
should only be a month or two before we have --pack-1.4 (1.5?) up and running,
which will be a recommended upgrade for everyone.

I'm sorry you got caught in the middle of a side format that was a bit more
experimental than the rest.

John
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