[RFC] I want to disable submit_branch on my computer for all branches. How can I do that?

[John Arbash Meinel]

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On 5/13/2011 9:14 AM, Martin Pool wrote:
> +0.9 to adding a new merge_default_location. I think having it clear
> which command it affects is easier than having apparently magic
> relations between the commands.  We can possibly have dallas between the
> commands.

I think there are a couple of different workflows, and it might be
better to be clear about what we are trying to support.

Short answer:

For my use case, merge remembering the location doesn't help. It is rare
that I do the same merge more than once. Also, in my head it is always
"I want to merge THIS_BRANCH", which means I already have a target I'm
typing. I have to think harder if I want to remember what the default
branch would be, and if that matches THIS_BRANCH.



Longer answer.


Some people work like Aaron does/did, and have multiple locations that
they sync. (desktop/laptop/server/smart phone)
As such, the default location they would push/pull is likely to be one
of their other locations.

Some people work primarily in one location, and have their work in a
star-topology around a trunk branch. In which case, there is a small
chance they will merge between feature branches, and a fairly large
chance they will merge from trunk. Probably the largest chance is that
they will merge into trunk, but each of those merges is unlikely to be
repeated.

I will say that *for me*, I pretty much never write just "bzr merge". I
always give a source (fairly frequently bzr merge ../bzr.dev). I don't
know if the current algorithm is confusing enough that I don't use it,
or just that I work on 20 different branches, and have no idea what each
one things is the merge target. So I'm just always explicit.

In fact, I generally never *think* to run just "bzr merge". In my head
it is never "I want to sync using merge", it is always "I want to merge
*this* branch".

I *do* have submit_branch configured, but rarely use "-rsubmit:".

The one default setting I use 10 times a day is "push_location". I set
up most of my locations to push to the appropriate place on launchpad.
So I don't have to re-type the long branch names all the time.

And occasionally I really wish "bzr pull :push" would work (:push
doesn't expand lp:foo). Mostly when I'm moving into another VM/machine
where I've been also updating a branch. (Such as performance testing on
both Windows and Linux.)

John
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