[RFC] bzr-svn documentation updates...

John Szakmeister john at szakmeister.net
Wed Sep 16 16:59:34 BST 2009


On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Eric Siegerman <lists08-bzr at davor.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 06:29 -0400, John Szakmeister wrote:
>> what do you mean by "round-tripping"?
>> Do you mean what happens when a revision you introduced via a Bazaar
>> branch makes into the SVN repo, and you pull in the new revision?
>
> Precisely.  And vice versa, though you've covered one aspect of
> that in "Don't merge from trunk into feature branches'.

Good.  Just making sure I understood.

> Is anything else lost or changed in the translation from
> svn->bzr->svn, or bzr->svn->bzr for that matter?  Cue discussion
> about "push" vs. "dpush" (I think; I'm inferring here from
> half-remembered threads about it), svn versioned properties, and
> the like.  (You say elsewhere that bzr "doesn't support" the
> latter, but does it at least preserve them in the SVN revs that
> have them, or are they dropped in the bit bucket?)

I just added a section on metadata this morning at 3AM, and "push" vs "dpush".

Right, bzr-svn preserves them, but you can't alter them via bzr at the moment.

-John



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