So many repo formats

[Matt Nordhoff]

Andrew Cowie wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 18:38 +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>> A little detail for folk interested in this. The 'rich-root' formats
>> contain one (one!) extra field...
> 
> So, notwithstanding the one-time conversion cost for existing projects
> (which is perfectly reasonable to incur at an "upgrade"), why on earth
> don't you guys just collapse this rich-root business into the default
> format and in one fell swoop eliminate half of the confusion and bugs
> that are associated with this?
> 
> Discussion of trap doors and whatnot seems off base; it's going to
> happen sooner or later; so how about sooner? I mean, what clients out
> there on widely deployed systems _aren't_ using a Bazaar that
> understands this rich root thing?
> 
> AfC
> Sydney

That was discussed recently:

<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.bazaar-ng.general/48697/focus=48698>
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