Breezy 2019 summer sprint report

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Sun, Sep 01, 2019 at 09:26:20AM -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> But brz init-repo is documented to create a shared repository ("Create a
> shared repository for branches to share storage space.").  If Git doesn't
> support shared repositories, I'd expect this to fail.  Possibly it wouldn't
> support --git at all.
So to be more precise: a Git repository supports multiple branches in
a repository, just *only* colocated.

if 'init-repo' is only intended to create shared repositories where
the branch can be in a subdirectory, then I believe we should rename
it to prevent confusion.

> Aaron
> 
> On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 8:06 AM Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at jelmer.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Sep 01, 2019 at 11:53:58AM +0100, Sam Bull wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2019-08-31 at 22:39 +0000, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > > > Ahhh! Git doesn't support shared repositories, so the branch command
> > would
> > > > create a new repository in trunk as well.
> > >
> > > So the --git argument is a red-herring? It's a little disappointing that
> > it
> > > takes 10 seconds to create a new branch. But, I'd still rather have that
> > delay
> > > that be using Git's single directory checkouts (which make it rather
> > annoying to
> > > work on 2 different issues in parallel).
> >
> > The --git argument does create a repository, so it's not a red
> > herring. What happens is:
> >
> > # this creates a git repository in blah/.git
> > $ bzr init-repo --git blah
> >
> > # This ignores blah/.git, since git doesn't support shared
> > # repositories. Instead, it creates a repository in
> > # blah/branchname/.git
> > $ bzr branch git://github.com/blah/blah blah/branchname
> >
> > Jelmer
> >
> >

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