[darcs-devel] [issue1040] wish: darcs convert with multiple branches

[Eric Kow]

New submission from Eric Kow <eric.kow at gmail.com>:

Right now, an obstacle to people upgrading to darcs2 is that having to collapse
branches, convert them, and peel them back apart is too daunting a process.  It
would be nice if darcs convert could be extended
(a) to accept multiple repositories as arguments (treating them as all being
related)
(b) attempt to do the merging itself; timing out after N minutes
(parameterisable) in case of the exponential merge bug
(c) [optionally] peel the branches back apart... at the the very least, I think
darcs convert should create a convert-to-darcs-2 tag for each branch so that
they can be easily peeled apart with obliterate --from-tag

In short, we need to do whatever it takes to make upgrading easy

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messages: 5783
nosy: Serware, dagit, kowey
priority: wishlist
status: unread
title: wish: darcs convert with multiple branches
topic: Darcs2

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