Better name for dpush wanted
Jelmer Vernooij
jelmer at samba.org
Fri Apr 17 14:59:38 BST 2009
Forest Bond wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:58:41AM +1000, Ian Clatworthy wrote:
>
>> Did we ever get a better name for dpush (or option to
>> push enabling it) agreed? I'd really like to see that
>> happen before the current name gains any more inertia.
>>
>> FWIW, the best suggestion I'd seen/heard so far is
>> calling it "push-out".
>>
>
> I'd like to add that projects that use svn exclusively would much prefer bzr
> users to dpush instead of push. I'd always wondered what dpush did and why I
> had to confuse other users with bzr meta-data conflicts on svn cherry-picks.
> Sadly, I didn't connect those musings.
>
This is only the case if you're using an old Subversion server (<1.4.x).
Newer versions of bzr-svn use revision properties, which are not
generally visible to the user in e.g. commit notification emails, and
won't cause conflicts in cherry picks.
Cheers,
Jelmer
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