bzr/LP issues from work discussed at UDS

[Andrew Bennetts]

John Arbash Meinel wrote:
[...]
> > 2) Importing non-master branches
[...]
> We've had a lot of discussion on this point. I'm pretty sure we ended up
> with
> 
> http://host/path/to/X;branch=Y
> 
> As the preferred syntax. It requires quoting on the command line, and
> using 'branch=' is a bit more verbose if you were typing it manually.
> But it ends up being the "least evil". So I'm guessing we should JFDI
> and get something.

Yes, someone should just JFDI this.  I suspect handling the syntax is a
relatively minor part of the work involved, so there's no reason to
block work on this on making a final definitive decision on the syntax.

FWIW I think the “;key=value” syntax is fine, although obviously there's
some scope for debating what keys and values to allow... “branch=NICK” for
colocated branches seems fine to me, and “revid=REVID” and
“revno=NNN” seem like obvious choices as well.

-Andrew.