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Re: [PATCH] remote-bzr: update old organization

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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
May 14, 2013, 22:43 UTC
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On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> And the clone would happen either way, with or without this patch,
>>>>> because 'hg/origin/master' doesn't exist, the only purpose 'hg/origin'
>>>>> serves is to block the new feature.
>>>>
>>>> That is the answer I was trying to extract out of you (I take the hg
>>>> is a typo for bzr in the above, though).
>>>
>>> Just to double check, I understand that the justification for
>>> removal is this:
>>>
>>>      If a clone exists with the old organization (v1.8.2) it will prevent the
>>>      new shared repository organization from working, so let's remove this
>>>     -repository, which is not used any more.
>>>     +repository. It is not used by 1.8.3, and did not host any useful
>>>     +information in the code in 1.8.2.
>>
>> That is not true. It did host useful information in 1.8.2, if we apply
>> this and the user tries to pull with remote-bzr from 1.8.2, it would
>> need to be cloned again.
>
> So the answer to my original question:
>
>     So we nuke that and have them clone from scratch?

No, as I already explained the "cloning from scratch" is already happening with or without this patch.

All this change does is remove a repository that is not used any more in order to allow a feature that was already introduced, and that's exactly what the commit message says. It doesn't cause any other change.

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Felipe Contreras
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