your thoughts wanted on bzr team UDD focus

[Jonathan Lange]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Max Bowsher <maxb at f2s.com> wrote:
> Vincent Ladeuil wrote:
>
>> * import all branches defined in a git repo instead of only HEAD
>>
>> The later may not be the bzr team direct responsibility, but all
>> parties involved in the discussion at UDS (Keybuk, jelmer, jml,
>> kiko ?) agreed about its importance
>
> bzr-git can already import all branches - what it can't do is import a
> specific branch, which is presumably what prevents its use in Launchpad
> code imports.
>

Say "hinders", not "prevents". Right now, the Launchpad code import
system (and indeed everything about Launchpad code) is very, very
branch-oriented.

Perhaps Launchpad could import all the branches in a git-repo?

Probably easier for all concerned to allow us to import a single
branch, at least to start with.

> I happened to be playing with this last night and it appears to require
> only about 7 lines of code in bzr-git. The outstanding problem is
> apparently that no one has managed to agree on an URL form to refer to
> "colocated branches", so the actual implementation is blocked.
>

Well, Launchpad doesn't _need_ a URL. We could change the import form
to have an optional "branch" field, and pass that as some secondary
option to bzr-git.

AIUI, the only thing blocking us on that is round tuits. Michael
Hudson, who has done the vast bulk of the code import work, is busy
doing build-from-recipe stuff right now, but the code is there for the
hacking. Maybe someone from the Bazaar world?

jml