Re: [StGIT PATCH] Don't use patches/<branch>/current

["Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>]

On 15/05/07, Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 04:56:33PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > I think the self.__current_file (same for the base file removed in a
> > different patch) should still be available in the Series object and
> > removed when deleting a branch, otherwise you get a "Series directory
> > .. is not empty" exception.
>
> Shouldn't we also migrate to new format as soon as we need to touch a
> data - in this case, whenever we push/pop ?
>
> Or maybe declare a new "stgit stack format version" ?  Currently we
> have "stg branch --convert", which switches between a "new" and an
> "old" format which noone probably uses any more.  What about
> versionning the on-disk format, and possibly provide the "convert"
> functionnality back and forth between one format and the next, with
> formal documentation about which version works with which stack
> format ?

I think it would be useful to have a version file (probably per
branch) and just upgrade when a mismatch is detected (in the __init__
function). The other option is to keep ignoring the unused files until
the branch is deleted but we might make a change at some point that
would break things.

We should write successive convert() functions and keep all of them in
case one skips an intermediate version.

-- 
Catalin