bzr-colo: wow

[Martin Pool]

On 27 September 2010 23:11, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 10:38 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
>> I've just started using bzr-colo
>> <http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/plugins/en/colo-plugin.html> for all
>> my work, and I have to say it's really very slick.  If you haven't
>> tried it I recommend you do.
>>
>> Perhaps we can pull this together with Jelmer's name branches patches
>> and with looms as a built-in facility.
> It can't unfortunately, as it doesn't introduce a new directory format.
>
> lp:bzr-colocated does introduce a new directory format specifically to
> support colocated branches, but as colocated branch support is
> incomplete in bzr at the moment it's not really useful at the moment (as
> opposed to lp:bzr-colo).

But it seems to me perhaps we could make them converge, so that bzr
colo detects a colo-ified .bzr even though it doesn't have a specific
format marker, and then provides that abstraction of multiple higher
branches to the ui layer.  I haven't actually done it but it doesn't
seem like it would be impossible or unreasonably gross.

-- 
Martin