Terminating the append_revisions_only experiment, for now

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On 08/22/2011 08:05 PM, Max Bowsher wrote:
> We currently have 97 packages failing with AppendRevisionsOnlyViolation
> - that's around a sixth of all failures.
>
> I think we should roll back the change to the importer to set
> append_revisions_only on UDD branches, and make the importer clear the
> flag when doing its own pushes to Launchpad.
>
> It feels clear to me that what seemed like an obvious win at the time of
> introduction has revealed lots of interesting and unexpected edge cases.
> I think we can serve UDD best by getting these imports working again how
> they were before, since time has shown that we don't have a quick fix
> compatible with retaining the append_revisions_only behaviour.
>
That sounds reasonable to me.

Cheers,

Jelmer