Confused about stability of revno's

[Stefan Haller]

Harald Meland <harald.meland at usit.uio.no> wrote:

>   bzr init --append-revisions-only
> 
> Bob's push attempt would result in the following error:
> 
> bzr: ERROR: Operation denied because it would change the main history,
> which is not permitted by the append_revisions_only setting on branch
> "master".

Thanks; I knew I must be missing something.  I think this option would
deserve some prominent mention in the bazaar documentation about
centralized workflows.

> For Bob to push his change in such a setup, he would then need to
> merge his own branch into (a copy of) the master branch (and then push
> the copy to master).

Doesn't this mean that every developer must keep two branches around for
every branch they are working on?  One that serves as a copy of the
central branch so that it can be merged into, and the other where the
real work happens?  Sounds awkward to me.


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Stefan Haller
Berlin, Germany
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