dpush

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 07:37 +1000, Ian Clatworthy wrote: 
> 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 :-)
> > 
> 
> Right. We had a *long* debate about the dpush name and agreed something
> more meaningful would be great. We just never got final agreement on
> what. See https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2009q2/057141.html.
> Russel's summary of where the debate was a good one:
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2009q2/057246.html.
> 
> In a nutshell, I wanted a more meaningful name before "dpush" gained too
> much inertia. It's a bit late, I suspect. It might still make sense to
> have a better name and make dpush an alias though.
> 
> Alternatively, poolie wanted dpush to become "push --xxx" (where xxx was
> rebase or foreign or ...) and for users to be able to configure the
> behaviour to be implicit for target URLs. I can't recall if Jelmer was
> against that for semantic reasons, technical reasons or both.
I'm not against having a separate option on "bzr push", but I think it should be two options:

--lossy, which would be appropriate for a lot of other commands as well.
--rebase, which would enable the rebasing of the local branch using the
remote branch.

Cheers,

Jelmer

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