Whole tree up to date before committing

[Ian Clatworthy]

Neil Martinsen-Burrell wrote:
> On 2009-10-22 12:54 , John Szakmeister wrote:

>> Right now, I see the lack of nested trees as being the biggest
>> stumbling block to Bazaar in our workplace.  We don't like externals,
>> but unfortunately, our customers do.  Mercurial has this support now.
>> It'd be really nice to get a similar facility into Bazaar.  I haven't
>> tried scmproj yet, but I'm frightened of trying to explain it to 30
>> people, much less 300.  It's the only way I see big projects coming
>> together smoothly.
> 
> I would agree with John.  I followed Subversion development closely
> before I came to Bazaar, and externals is one of the most-asked-about
> features on their mailing lists.  The concept of embedding versioned
> trees within other versioned trees is a significant boon for many
> software projects.  I don't know what sort of "strategic" planning for
> the Bazaar 2.0 cycle has happened, but I hope that nested trees come
> high up on that list.

I would encourage any community member keen to see Nested Trees land to
update http://bazaar-vcs.org/Roadmap with their "3 wishes beyond 2.0"
and include it (as I did).

> One of the other questions that comes up frequently on the Subversion
> mailing list is "How can I automatically update a remote working copy
> with the latest version of my project?"

As our newly organised plugins page shows (see the Publishing section),
we have lots of options here and others that aren't even listed there
(e.g. https://launchpad.net/bzr-mirror). I think we need some umbrella
documentation (in the User Guide say) explaining when each one is the
best choice.

> Server
> administration issues including access control and shallow checkouts are
> two other features that often come (came) up at Subversion-users.

Administration documentation is one thing I'd like to improve for 2.1.x.
I'll chat to Martin about finding some time for that but my plate is
already overflowing with other stuff I must do and stuff I'd like to do.
Any assistance community folk can offer by drafting up Wiki pages (say)
with the key topics will help me a lot make this happen.

Ian C.