[#390502] upgrading bzr trunk to 2a

[Russel Winder]

On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 16:05 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> I think now would be a great time to switch the bzr trunk to 2a format.
> 
> After some discussion what I propose to do is:
> 
> 0- Test upgrading bzr.dev on my own machine

As an anecdotal confidence booster.  I have been running my bzr-dev
branches in a 2a shared repository for a while now.  I had no conversion
problems and it works fine.

> 1- Ask a friendly sysadmin to upgrade the master branch controlled by
> pqm to format 2a and check it;
> 2- Push from that pqm master to lp:~bzr-pqm/bzr/trunk2a
> 3- Configure pqm to use that as the public location of the branch.
> This will mean that commits in pqm will be immediately available on lp
> rather than waiting to be mirrored.  It may require people to change
> the destination url when they submit to pqm.
> 4- Change the development focus and series branch, so that lp:bzr
> points to this new branch and newly created branches will be stacked
> on it.
> 5- Repeat this for active series branches (1.18 etc)
> 
> I don't think this requires intervention from anyone except some help
> from spm to do the upgrade and I'll send mail about any changes needed
> to your pqm-submit setup.  If you see any problems with it, yell now.
> 
-- 
Russel.
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