So many repo formats

[Alexander Belchenko]

Gour пишет:
>>>>>> "John" == John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:
> 
> Hello John,
> 
> John>I think you underestimate the value of compatibility. I still have
> John> branches laying around from a while ago. 2 years isn't really that
> John> long to want to come back to hack on some software you didn't need
> John> to work on in the meantime.
> 
> Hmm, many people are moving from Win95, to Win98, to Win2k, WinXP
> etc. and in due course of time support for some of those old OS-es
> vanish.
> 
> Similarly, we moved from e.g. kernel 2.0, to 2.4, to 2.6 and some of the
> older ones are not longer supported.
> 
> I had lot of repos in darcs-1 format and upgraded them all to darcs-2...
> 
> So, I understand you could have many old branches laying around, but do
> not understand what's the problem to fire up some small script and
> upgrade all those repos?

IIRC Robert (or maybe Aaron?) was proposed in the past moving support for old bzr formats
in separate plugin(s).

> 
> John> I would be fine with *hiding* the formats, so that you don't see
> John> them when doing "bzr help init", but I think supporting them
> John> internally is a great boon to us, rather than a hindrance.
> 
> That would be at least something...

Dear bzr.devs! I'm also think that current zoo of formats is the real shame
and pain in the ass. Many users even don't try to understand what's difference
between all those formats. I know it because I saw this looking on my coworkers.

Many times bzr people said that user should not intimately understand repository
internal format. But this zoo of formats require at least basic understanding
of important details. Something wrong here.