Upgrading loggerhead to 1.9-rich-root

[Jonathan Lange]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Robert Collins
<robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 19:35 -0300, Martin Albisetti wrote:
>> So, to help out with dogfooding of the new format, I'd like to upgrade
>> Loggerhead trunk to from 1.9 to 1.9-rich-root. My plan is to do it on
>> Wed 13th May around midnight UTC, unless somebody has a good reason
>> not to.
>>
>> This does mean that all current stacked branches will break if you
>> don't upgrade them to rich-roots (they will be "broken" once you do
>> upgrade, but will resume to work once we upgrade trunk), so if you
>> have any branches you'd like to continue working.
>>
>> You will have to upgrade your local copies as well. To do so, use:
>> bzr upgrade --1.9-rich-root PATH_TO_BRANCH
>>
>> After the new format (code-name dev6 or brisbane-core) becomes default
>> in 2.0, the whole rich-root/non-rich-root madness will end, and new
>> era of compatibility will take over the world.
>
> You need to run 'bzr check' after upgrading, if there are inconsistent
> (revisions | parents | file refs) you need to run reconcile.
>
> We recommend doing this before the upgrade too.
>
> I think we should have a template for people that includes these
> instructions.

Why not a command / plugin?

jml