Bazaar TFS plugin 0.1 released

[John Barstow]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:
>
> If you derive revision objects you return from
> bzrlib.foreign.ForeignRevision then "bzr log" will automatically call
> your show_foreign_revid function.
>

Apparently not unless you're actually using a mapping (which is best
practice of course). Of course this just highlights the need for me to
fix up mapping support before the next release of bzr-tfs.

> I'd like to standardize on using Bazaar pack files for this, as the
> alternatives that are in use by bzr-git/bzr-hg/bzr-svn either require
> extra dependencies (tdb, not available on windows) or have other
> problems (sqlite, doesn't allow concurrency).
>
> John was working on refactoring some of the pack management code; once
> that lands I'm planning to look into using Bazaar pack files in
> bzr-svn/bzr-hg/bzr-git.
>

I guess I don't see how this would be better than creating a
heavyweight checkout. Or maybe its the same thing but in different
area than the actual repository?