dpush

[John Szakmeister]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> 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.
>
> 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.

I personally like it as a separate command.  Of course, I can just
make dpush an alias too. *shrug*

-John