[MERGE] dpush / foreign vcs testing

[Russel Winder]

On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 04:13 +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> I would expect this to be an option for ‘push’. Suggestions:
> >>     ‘push --foreign-clean’
> >> or
> >>     ‘push --foreign-only’
> >>     
> >
> > I'm not sure if I understand correctly what it does, but isn't it the
> > case that it takes the state at the tip of the branch and commits it to
> > some other branch (in the case og bzr-svn, it's a foreign branch),
> > losing all the metadata along the way?
> >
> > If so, it's as much a "push" as a "commit".
> >   
> It pushes it each individual revision that is missing from the remote
> branch; it does not just take a snapshot of the last revision and
> commits that. The sort of metadata it loses for bzr-svn are: committer,
> revision properties, file ids, revision id, parent ids (unless they
> exist in svn already in which case svn:mergeinfo is set).

Also there is a rebase so that the branch from which the dpush
originates is changed by the dpush.  This is totally alien to what a
push does so using a separate command name and not an option to push
seems like the right thing to do.

Given that is Git there is:

	git commit

but

	git svn dcommit

then having dpush and push for bzr-svn always struck me as an entirely
reasonable labelling.

Of course the way Git does these things is very different to the way
Bazaar does these things -- details available on request to those not
familiar with all this -- so having a different labelling in Bazaar is
another reasonable option.

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