Comment 4 for bug 119765

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 119765] Re: default branch format should support tags

On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 01:38 +0000, Aaron Bentley wrote:
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> Martin Pool wrote:
> > We should consider doing this for 0.17 - would depend on there being no
> > blockers to making dirstate-tags the default format.
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> It seems rather late in the release process. I would prefer to do it as
> part of 0.18. We could also consider jumping to dirstate-with-subtree.
> Both it and dirstate-tags are network-incompatible with 0.14 and
> earlier, but dirstate-with-subtreee also cannot be converted to earlier
> formats, because of the model change.

I don't think changing default format at rc time is wise; if we were
going to do it doing it at the start of the cycle would be much better.

-Rob
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