.bzrrules in branch histories

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Am Freitag, den 01.08.2008, 11:03 +1000 schrieb Robert Collins:
> So Ian is making great progress towards having a robust tree filtering
> facility which will allow keyword expansion, end-of-line translation and
> so on. The .bzrrules support is part of that by activating translation.
> 
> I've expressed concerns in the past about having bzr metadata part of
> the versioned tree - .bzrignore is an example of this, and its somewhat
> problematic today.
> 
> Currently .bzrrules will be happily versioned by bzr 1.6; I'd like to
> disable that - to have the rules support include .bzrrules in the list
> of control directory names (like .bzrshelf) so that it does not get
> versioned.
> 
> This would do several things:
>  - it would stop .bzrrules propogating 
>  - it would also prevent .bzrrules propogating into svn (see bug 145155)
>  - prevent a bunch of small fallout like export having to change
> 
> I think that this is fine: rules and tree filtering are a new feature;
> they are not baked yet, and I think its more important with a new
> feature to be conservative about the impact on the versioned-history
> than to roll out every aspect of it straight-up.
> 
> People do want to share their tree filtering configurations, and doing
> this would mean they can't by default today; I'd be delighted to help
> get a solid sharing mechanism in place over the next release or two.
> 
> There seem to be conflicting requirements for tree filtering sharing
> though, which is why I'm not concerned about pushing back and aiming to
> get it smooth for the 'its supported by default' moment.
> 
> Concretely people need to setup the right rules to mark some files as
> binary and some as text; they may also want to be able to see what rules
> were set in the past; finally they may want to use the *latest* rules on
> all versions of their tree(because .png is binary even in a tree from
> last year which does not have a rules file setup for it)
> 
> So in short:
>  - exclude .bzrrules from being added or versioned today
>  - talk through the needs for .bzrrules sharing and version during 1.7
>  - have a solid answer in place for 1.8
> 
> What do you all think?
Thanks for the clear explaanation of this; I agree it would indeed be a
good idea to not .bzrrules versioned for now. 

Cheers,

Jelmer
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