Comment 2 for bug 731262

On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 13:00 +0000, John A Meinel wrote:
> On 3/8/2011 1:47 PM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > Public bug reported:
> >
> > some formats (bzr-svn, bzr-git, bzr-hg, probably other foreign formats
> > as well) can not be cloned while stacking, even if the target format
> > does support stacking.
> >
> > there should be a flag to make the testsuite skip stacking tests;
> > probably on RepositoryFormat?
> Can you explain this a bit more? Cannot-be-clone-while-stacking. Seems
> like it means you can't really stack then, either.
The inability to use stacked_on= clone() was what prompted me to file
this bug report, but you're right - it's *all* stacking that doesn't
work for some formats and that's what we need a flag for.

Cheers,

Jelmer