Status update & proposed direction for branch-specific rules

[Aaron Bentley]

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Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> From memory, Aaron abstained but I suspect he agreed with Robert
> in principle.

I'm torn about it.  Although I originally argued for versioned data as a
separate thing from versioned files, I do worry about the usability of it.

> I'm going to have a crack at #3 and if that doesn't fly, argue for #1.
> I've had some thoughts over the weekend that I've written those up as a
> draft spec. See http://bazaar-vcs.org/DraftSpecs/MetafileManagement.

Best of luck with it.  Make sure your serialization format is versioned
and I suggest using bencode as the underlying format.

Aaron
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