So many repo formats

[Andrew Cowie]

On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 22:53 +0000, Matt Nordhoff wrote:
> That was discussed recently:

No kidding.

I re-raised the topic deliberately. The decision three weeks ago was
"no, not to make a format with rich-root the default because it'll have
knock on effects." Fine.

But when will it ever _not_ have knock on effects? If it's going to have
to be faced someday, then the lovely people who hack on Bazaar will need
to have a plan for that. "Put off the pain" is not really dealing with
the situation; "we will induce such pain at this defined point, everyone
expect it" might well be.

Whichever; I'd just like to see such a plan put in place because
otherwise the next time this discussion comes up the answer will be the
same "put it off" with the same result: another thread post the next
release wondering why there are so many damn formats and how to choose
between them.

(which I only care about because Bazaar is an outstanding tool, but the
plethora of public formats is  sort of thing leaves a horrible taste in
the mouth of someone who is encountering bzr for the first time and
trying to decide whether or not they can trust it. This hurts adoption,
and in theory we care about that 'round here)

AfC
Sydney

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