Roadmap for Bazaar...

Alexander Belchenko bialix at ukr.net
Tue Sep 21 14:21:05 BST 2010


John Szakmeister пишет:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 7:20 AM, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:
>> John Szakmeister пишет:
>> ...
>>>  * Nested trees.  Lots of folks have big projects, and they're
>>> currently using SVN's externals (which I loathe).  Unfortunately,
>>> without this feature, folks don't know a good way to organize their
>>> tree.  Oh, and somewhat related to this, I think svn:revno should pick
>>> the most recent version of a branch if it wasn't modified in revno...
>>> just like SVN does.  Otherwise, nested trees aren't as useful against
>>> SVN repositories (about half the ones I work against would be broken).
>> I don't quite understand your remark about svn:revno, you wrote: "I think
>> svn:revno should pick the most recent version of a branch if it wasn't
>> modified in revno...". What do you mean?
> 
> Lots of folks do the following in their externals:
>    external-lib     -r 7000  /repos/external-lib/trunk
> 
> However, r7000 may not have changed trunk.  Perhaps r6970 was the last
> revision that changed trunk.  Unfortunately, Bazaar will treat
> svn:7000 as an unknown revision when talking about trunk, instead of
> doing what Subversion would do and realize that r7000 and r6970 have
> the same content.  It's particularly problematic for project where
> someone breaks something, and folks set the revision number to the one
> just before it broke.  Hopefully that makes more sense.

Yes, it makes sense. Thank you for explanation. But it seems for me this 
is more bug/feature request in bzr-svn rather than in bzr core, isn't it?



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