Sorry for not letting you know about this earlier; after the discussion on the merge proposal I got distracted by other things and then forgot about it.
There are still some things we can do, such as providing a plugin with a command that implements this behaviour. Would that help, or are there perhaps other things we can do?
Yes, it didn't make it into 2.5.0 because of concerns about API changes so late in the cycle. See https:/ /code.launchpad .net/~jelmer/ bzr/overwrite- tags/+merge/ 91277 for the discussion.
Sorry for not letting you know about this earlier; after the discussion on the merge proposal I got distracted by other things and then forgot about it.
There are still some things we can do, such as providing a plugin with a command that implements this behaviour. Would that help, or are there perhaps other things we can do?