[1.13][merge] set default format to 1.9 and tweak remote branch stacking

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 17:45 +1300, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Martin Pool wrote:
> > This
> > 
> >  * sets the default repository format to 1.9, which is straightforward
> > but needs a few changes to blackbox tests that include the format
> > number
> 
> If we're going to make a watershed, I'd prefer to switch to a
> tree-reference format, so that we don't have another watershed and we
> can stop having multiple variations of each repository format.
> 
> However, this requires some changes in the working tree, so that people
> don't accidentally get nested trees.  Ideally, it would happen with a
> new format.
> 
> However, I'd be able to start work on this next week.
> 
> However, it's a judgement call, and I'll work with whatever you decide.
Since formats are never made the default until a couple of releases have
gone by, this would mean not having rich root support in the default
format until something like 1.17 (July/Aug) ?

Cheers,

Jelmer
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