[rfc] bzr-colo into core

[John Arbash Meinel]

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On 03/30/2011 11:22 AM, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 30 March 2011 20:17, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:
>>>> In which case, we do just end up with a lightweight checkout pointing
>>>> somewhere in a directory of branches.
>>>
>>> In this case we should fix absolute path problem.
>>
>> (Sorry, I've not finished my thought)
>>
>> I want to say: in this we should fix absolute path problem and that might
>> require format change as well.
> 
> It might; historically any change to what we wrote out was a format
> bump.  But that was not the best tradeoff.  I wonder if we would be
> better off saying: really these should be relative, and it's a bug in
> previous bzr releases if they don't read that properly (assuming they
> don't.)
> 
> Martin

They almost do. If you are working from the root of the tree (where the
path is relative) it works fine.
It only breaks when you are in a subdir.

This is more than sufficient for me to say "it was just a bug", and we
can patch whatever versions of bzr we want to.

John
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