Bazaar Mercurial Plugin to access BitBucket

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 03:22 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>  > What I'd *really* like to see is convergence on the wire and disk
>  > formats, and let innovation occur in the ui and gui tools.  I know
>  > that's not feasible now (I'm vaguely aware that Bazaar is the only
>  > dvcs that version controls certain metadata like revision
>  > signatures), but I don't see why it couldn't be possible.
> Well, git's fast-import format is pretty close.  There was an all-DVCS
> summit where developers from each got together to somewhat standardize
> that format.
Most DVCS tools support fastimport one way or another, but if that was
the result of some sort of summit I certainly have missed it. Ian
extended the fastimport format to support some of the metadata that bzr
stores that git doesn't, but this data trips up git's fastimport AFAIK
(that's why bzr-fastexport has a --plain option) and fastimport still
remains git-oriented and lossy when used for bzr.

> But I don't think you're going to see convergence in the disk
> formats.  Bazaar prides itself on accurate representation of what the
> user did, as you see in the thread by Martin and Ben.  You also see
> there that Martin doesn't really care about corner cases like empty
> directories.
I agree, we probably won't see a convergence of disk formats but
interoperability is important as ever.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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