Repository Reference Rollup (was Re: Repository referencing in command lines)

[Erik Bågfors]

2006/2/14, Vincent LADEUIL <v.ladeuil at alplog.fr>:
> >>>>> "Erik" == Erik Bågfors <zindar at gmail.com> writes:
>
>     Erik> 2006/2/14, Vincent LADEUIL <v.ladeuil at alplog.fr>:
>     >> >>>>> "Denys" == Denys Duchier <duchier at ps.uni-sb.de>
>     >> writes:
>     >>
>
>     Denys> I don't get where repo:<repo_url>:<branch_name> is any
>     Denys> different from <repo_url>/<branch_name>
>
>     >>  8-/ Because both <repo_url> and <branch_name> can
>     >> contain  '/' ?  Because ':' can disambiguate in that
>     >> case (and make things clearer for both user and the
>     >> programmer ) ?
>     >>
>
>     Denys> To disambiguate, you'd need an ambiguity.
>
>     >>  1) Repo: foo/bar, Branch: baz/qux
>     >>
>     >> 2) Repo: foo, Branch: bar/baz/qux
>     >>
>     >> leads to:
>     >>
>     >> foo/bar/baz/qux is either 1 or 2
>
>     Erik> I think this is perfect.
>
> I don't get it :-(
>
> Denys ask  where the ambiguity was,  I show an  example, and then
> you say:  "perfect". What  is perfect ?  The example  showing the
> ambiguity or the fact that there is an ambiguity ?

Oh, sorry,

What I meant was the  I don't care about the ambiguity. And I love this syntax.

>     Erik> As an end user I shouldn't NEED to know if it's stored
>     Erik> in a repo or not. I should just get a pointer to where
>     Erik> to get the branch, and that should be it.
>
>     Erik> If I am a more advanced user (or administrator) I might
>     Erik> need to know, and in that case I think a command like
>     Erik> "bzr info foo/bar/baz/qux" should give repo location,
>     Erik> branch location, revision numbers, rev_ids, etc.
>
> Good point.
>
>     >> foo/bar:baz/qux is 1 foo:bar/baz/qux is 2
>
>     Erik> This is terrible IMHO.
>
> What is terrible  ? The fact that, as a user,  I don't know which
> one gives which result ?

The syntax and the fact that I, as an end-user needs to know about
internal setups, such as repositories. I should be able to use bzr
happily without caring (well, if someone else takes care of
administrating the system that is)

/Erik