1.6 home straight

[Robert Collins]

On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 09:40 -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
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> Did you have a patch for this? I'm not planning on doing much devel to
> get 1.6 out the door, because it is *way* overdue. I'm also not
> convinced that you are correct about .bzrrules in the first place. So
> with no patch, an a controversy about the decision, I'm not going to
> delay a release on something hypothetical.

The patch will be trivial and I'll be working on it today. Martin
proposed disabling the feature rather than not-versioning .bzrrules - he
preferred this to excluding .bzrrules from versioning in case we do
decide that that is the right way forward. I discussed this with Ian,
and he was ok with the quid pro quo I offered - which is that during 1.7
I help do 'something better', and Jelmer supported not
versioning .bzrrules as a part of the tree. Given that there we no 'you
are wrong' mails to the thread I started about this, I certainly feel
there is enough consensus.

> My personal feeling, we need a way to propagate things that aren't
> specifically user-tree changes like .bzrignore, .bzrrules, and tags. We
> don't have it, what we do have is a bit ad hoc. But in the short term,
> versioning is probably the best answer, and I'm tired of having this
> discussion end in "we should do it differently" but nobody steps up to
> do the code and we end up lacking functionality as a result. Tags were
> the extreme example of this.

I'm extremely tired of it too. I'm tired of the bugs that arise when
people try to work with metadata files and bzr just lets them down. I'm
really tired of us not having learnt from past whack-a-mole issues that
we're willing to create more of them! I remember a mail from Aaron back
in, oh, 2005 that expresses what I feel very elegantly, but I can't seem
to find it :(.

> If you feel strongly enough to write a patch that passes review, I'll
> consider merging it to 1.6.

Sure, its running tests now.

-Rob
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