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

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
>> ---
>
> What happens with and without this patch to an existing user from
> 1.8.2 days, when she does what?

I already explained it would prevent the new shared repository
organization from working, so the old organization would be used; the
repositories won't be shared.

> A sample answer (to show the level of descriptiveness, not the
> content, I am epecting) might go something like "Because the
> organization is different, it will barf whenever she tries to
> incrementally update from the other side. By removing the old one
> 1.8.3 contrib/ does not understand, at least we can unstuck her; she
> ends up reimporting the whole history, though."

Bazaar won't barf, the repositories will be duplicated, so the shared
feature won't work.

-- 
Felipe Contreras