post 0.8 development

[Matthieu Moy]

Martin Pool wrote:
> I've just uploaded a tarball and sent a release announcement for bzr 0.8.

Congratulation to all the team !

> I think there are a number of things already written & discussed that 
> were not merged for 0.8, and now would be a good time to pick them up.  
> I'll do a pass through the bug database & mail; if you have something 
> that should go in speak up now.  So let's pick up the easy patches first 
> that might otherwise languish, and then get into new development.

I feel bad posting my wishlist since I have no time to really 
contribute, but the things I'd like to see are :

* A better UI for repositories :

   - a single command to push a complete repository (with Arch, I had 
roughly a public and a private archive, and archive-mirror allowed me to 
publish all my public branches easily).

   - Something to help me to deal with a relatively large number of 
branches in a repository. Arch had this c--b--v which I (and others) 
didn't like, but I think bzr can provide something useful. It's already 
possible to have a directory structure inside a repository :
--repo/
    +--projectA/
    |    +--> main-branch/
    |    +--> old-stable-branch/
    |    `--> short-life-branch/
    `--Other-project/
        ...
I don't know exactly what bzr should provide more. At least, browsing 
the list of branches, and perhaps a regexp filter could be useful. I 
mean the kind of thing doable with a few lines of shell, find and grep 
on a local filesystem, but through the bzr transport layer (at least on 
transports supporting directory listing).

* updating remote working tree with push (discussed many times here, but 
it's much less crucial now that we have the metadir format. Still, it 
can be usefull to maintain a website with bzr, or to push to a backup 
location - I'm paranoid enough to backup my history _and_ my working trees).

* there's also my old "how to get the diff between two remote 
revisions", but nobody seems interested, so I'll have to do it myself 
when I have time ;-).

-- 
Matthieu