Re: Moving to bzr?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Great.  So we have a good enough repository now?
> I would feel more comfortable with a resounding "yes" if more of the
> Emacs hackers took a look at my emacs-merges repository, but I believe
> that is the case.

Yes, that is indeed a problem.  It takes a while to do that, and the
best way to do it, is to just use it for a while.  But if it's never
updated, it's difficult to "use of it for a while".

> I will spend some time today building an up to date version.

IIUC, it will be a complete new tree, right?  With no way to "pull" from
the old to the new one?

>>> The problem is the conversion is presently a one time only affair.  I
>>> don't have a way to keep the newly created repository in synch with
>>> CVS.  If Bazaar were to become the master repository, then the switch
>>> could be made.
>> Yes, indeed, keeping the repository up to date may not be necessary.
> If that is the case, then the migration is likely to be a lot easier
> (for me anyway).

Yes, well of course, OTOH for us it is likely to be harder.

>> Right, we'd want something for that indeed.  It doesn't need to be
>> done at the same time, but it'd be much better if we had some plan for
>> how to do it.
> I've done a little work on this, but if someone wants to help, it
> certainly wouldn't hurt my feelings :).  Arch certainly has an advantage
> here in that its metadata is easy to poke at.

Feel free to report your findings, or to "experiment out loud".

> At the very least I think we should wait for the 1.9 format variant (or
> one of its ancestors) to become the default.

You mean we should use the 1.9 format?  I guess that would be fine,
although IIUC the format of a repository can be changed after the fact,
so it doesn't seem crucial.


        Stefan