[MERGE] Make dpush help/error a bit more generic

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at samba.org
Sun May 17 15:54:29 BST 2009


On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:36:29AM +0200, Martin Pool wrote:
> 2009/5/16 Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at vernstok.nl>:
> > dpush' help and errors currently suggest that dpush is useful when
> > pushing into foreign branches, while in fact it's only useful to push
> > between branches in different vcs'es. bzr-git now supports pushing
> > from local into remote git branches and, since there is no conversion
> > necessary there, the current dpush descriptions are a bit confusing.

> > The attached patch fixes the dpush help/error.
> BB: tweak

> Would "not necessary" be more better than "not possible"?

> Could I persuade you to think about changing the command to push --lossy?
I'm slowly getting used to the idea. We need to figure out what to do
with the --no-rebase option that exists for dpush in that case. What
about?

bzr push --lossy			(now: bzr dpush --no-rebase)
bzr push --lossy --rebase	(now: bzr dpush)

Cheers,

Jelmer
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