Felipe Contreras <felipe.contre...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes:
>>
>>> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contre...@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?
is now "Yes, unfortunately, but it happens automatically inside
remote-bzr and the users won't have to do anything extra"?
That is the kind of honest description I wanted to see.
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