[rfc] bzr-colo into core

Martin Pool mbp at canonical.com
Tue Mar 22 00:41:38 UTC 2011


On 21 March 2011 21:56, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:
> Martin Pool пишет:
>>
>> {summary}
>>
>> Let's make bzr-colo the default model for bzr 3.0 in September.
>
> I'm going to provide more feedback based on my experience with bzr-colo, but
> right now I have to note that in the current form bzr-colo has one very weak
> point: bzr-colo uses branch references (lightweight checkouts) and those
> references are *always* absolute paths. This fact creates a lot of problems
> when user want to rename/move the colo-workspace, or just push from one
> colo-workspace to another colo-workspace on the different machine via path
> aliases (e.g. networked disks in Windows).
> There are several bug reports re this behavior.
>
> I think this should be carefully revised to avoid real problems when it
> becomes the default user model.

I agree we should definitely fix those bugs as a necessary part of
making this change.  They are worth fixing anyhow.

-- 
Martin



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