[MERGE] Tree-specific rules

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 14:40 +1000, Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> lifeless, fullermd and I discussed tree-specific rules on
> IRC today and agreed there was value in supporting them Real
> Soon Now. Ultimately, we'd like to be able to define rules
> that apply at a 'project' and/or branch level, perhaps by
> embedding rules in locations.conf and branch.conf. That's
> quite a complex change though, requiring further debate
> (e.g. are nested sections in ini-files too ugly a syntax?)
> and probably a branch format bump. There are also complexities
> around reapplying rules from different branches against
> a lightweight checkout.
> 
> This patch implements tree-specific rules by supporting an
> optional new configuration file, .bzr/checkout/rules. As
> currently implemented, this file is supported for all
> working-trees formats.

I don't think there are any rules we can safely set [such that new and
old bzr's will do the right thing] on existing tree formats, so IMO this
really should be just for 1.12-preview.

-Rob

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