dpush

[Russel Winder]

On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 17:17 +0000, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> 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.

Of course, the fact that nothing has been done might indicate that
despite what was said on the thread, no-one actually cares enough to
make the 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.

My main concern is what the situation is going to be in a years time --
will there be a dpush or not?  (I'm thinking about book chapters on
using Bazaar with Subversion and Git.)  If it isn't going to be there in
a year's time then the sooner its gone the better so I can do examples.

-- 
Russel.
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