branch specific rules - the latest proposal

[Alexander Belchenko]

Ian Clatworthy пишет:
> Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>> On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 07:48 +1000, Ian Clatworthy wrote:
>>> I spoke to Martin yesterday about this and our proposal is to store 
>>> branch specific rules in .bzrmeta/rules.
> 
>> This makes it practically impossible to support the conversion of this
>> sort of metadata in the foreign branch plugins. While I can understand
>> that that should not necessarily be a blocker (perfect is the enemy of
>> good, etc), I thought I should mention it anyway for completeness' sake.
> 
> Jelmer,
> 
> Can you please refresh my memory about the particular problems this will 
> cause you? Were you objecting to rules in particular or the broader 
> concept of having a .bzrmeta directory? We certainly need *a* solution 
> and this proposal seems to strike a reasonable balance of pros vs cons.
> 
> Can we solve your concerns by putting access to .bzrmeta/rules (or 
> ..bzrmeta/xxxx) behind an API friendly to your needs?

IIUC, the problem in round-tripping.

You can convert .bzrmeta info into corresponding proerties in svn when 
you push from bzr to svn, but you can't convert svn properties to 
.bzrmeta when you pull from original svn trunk, because original svn 
trunk has no .bzrmeta directory and don't use it.