2.0 migration confusion

Brad Schick schickb at gmail.com
Sat Oct 31 04:24:17 GMT 2009


On 10/30/2009 09:15 PM, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>
> ...
> >>> Further down in the upgrade guide, there is a section titled
> "Migrating
> >>> local branches after a central trunk has migrated". Does that mean
> that
> >>> people can't upgrade the local branches and keep working as usual?
> >>> Everyone really needs to re-branch from the upgraded server and then
> >>> copy over all their changes and ignored junk?
> >>>
> >>>     
> > Any word on this? I'd really rather not make everyone start from
> > scratch. Given the distributed nature of bzr, it really surprises me
> > that people can't just update their local branches directly.
>
>
> Everyone can upgrade independently, it is just inefficient. For example,
> upgrading a mysql repository can take >1 day, rather than the 30min it
> might take to download an already-converted copy.
>

Thanks. It would be nice to mention that in the upgrade docs given that
the vast majority of repositories are not mysql sized. Ours, for
example, upgraded in < 5 minutes which is much simpler than moving to a
fresh branch.

-Brad



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