dpush

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 03:55:59PM +0000, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 15:33 +0000, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 02:24:19PM +0000, Russel Winder wrote:
> > > Some time back there was a big debate about dpush.  Was there ever a
> > > resolution?  "bzr help dpush" still works.
> > Can you be a more specific? What was the debate about?
> 
> Getting rid of the dpush command for uploading to Subversion and Git
> repositories with rebasing in favour of an option to the push command.
> Personally I had no problem with having dpush for this as it is a
> special case of Bazaar behaviour, but many people wanted to expunge the
> extra command in favour of using options on the one true push
> command :-)
If I remember correctly most people were in favor of removing dpush and 
having the same functionality available as an option on push.  I suspect 
that the main reason nothing has happened yet is simply because nobody 
has had the time to make this change.

As has been pointed out, a --lossy option could be global since it might apply 
to more commands than just 'bzr push'. For example, 'bzr pull' and 'bzr commit' 
also create commits and can omit round-tripping data.

Cheers,

Jelmer