countdown to bzr 2.1

[Aaron Bentley]

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Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> Martin Pool wrote:
>> We now have about ten days til the scheduled release of bzr 2.1.0rc1
>> <https://edge.launchpad.net/bzr/2.1>, which is the feature freeze date
>> for 2.1.0final a couple of weeks later.
> 
>> If someone would like to try it, I think now would be a good time to
>> deprecate some of the command synonyms we introduced in the very early
>> days, like 'clone' for 'bzr branch'.
> 
> I'd also love to see 90% of our formats either be made obsolete or
> hidden. Try viewing help of any command (like init) that takes a format
> option and you'll see 19 formats at least, e.g.
> http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/bzr.dev/en/user-reference/init-help.html.
> On systems with plugins like bzr-hg installed, the number is 20 or more.
> That's pretty obscene.
> 
> I'd like to see that list cut down to:
> 
> * --default
> * --2a
> * --pack-0.92
> * --development-subtree.

I'd like to see --development-subtree out of the list.  I'd like to see
a stackable non-rich-root format in there.  Maybe a stackable rich-root
pre-1.16 format, too.

Aaron
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