Bazaar TFS plugin 0.1 released

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 16:47 +1200, John Barstow wrote:
> 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.
Yep. It shouldn't be too hard to create a trivial mapping subclass
though.

> > 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?
I should've clarified - I meant using Bazaar pack files to store the
cache information. Pack files can contain arbitrary data, and allows
them to be indexed.

Cheers,

Jelmer