RFC: advisory "branch_status" flag in branch.conf

[Martin Pool]

On 5 May 2011 17:27, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:

> I like the fact that our plugins are very well integrated at the moment
> - as a user you don't need to know what plugin a command is in to run
> it.
>
> Adding some hierarchy to the configuration options makes sense, but I
> wonder if the plugin that happens to be using a particular option is
> really relevant. For example, what about options that are used by
> multiple plugins?
>
> I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you that it would be useful to
> prefix the option with "colo.", but I think it should have that prefix
> because it applies only to colocated branches, not because it happens to
> be used by the bzr-colo plugin.

That's a really good point. There are things like shelve that have
moved from plugins to builtin and some things like old formats might
move out.  So perhaps the rule should be more that the name ought to
start with the conceptual area it applies to.

Martin