Package branch freshness

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Jul 19, 2011, at 10:02 AM, John Arbash Meinel wrote:

>Well, honestly, I trust your opinion more than mine. Mostly because it
>is something that you actively use. I do a lot of programming, but I
>don't do a lot of packaging day-to-day.

I don't know how typical my workflow is, but I do a lot of it, so anything to
streamline the process is of huge benefit.  bzr itself is almost always plenty
fast and not the biggest bottleneck at all.  (But as you've noticed I do have
60Mb/6Mb internet.)

>> FWIW, what I generally do is to use `bzr import-dsc` to get a branch I can
>> hack on.  It doesn't fix the import problems, but it generally allows me to
>> get unblocked for the immediate task.
>
>So that is "import a new revision with just the latest tip, ignoring all
>the history" ?

Yep.  Not ideal, but it does allow me to grab a package, make whatever changes
I need to make and get (almost) all the benefits of a vcs.  The only thing it
doesn't really allow me to do easily is merging across branches, but as this
is a fallback anyway, I don't miss that as much.

Cheers,
- -Barry
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