On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 16:01, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote: >... > This only affects working copies which contain moves recorded by > a trunk svn client. Once the branch is reintegrated, those moves > will stop working as expected. > > Given that the current target audience of trunk clients is reading > this list, I don't think a format bump is required.
Before we released 1.7, it was handy to keep bumping the wc format for changes. But now that 1.7 *has* been released, format bumps come with a lot of baggage. It immediately disables any 1.7 clients from working on a 1.8 working copy. We really should avoid that unless we find a true benefit against that cost. > Anyone who has working copies with local changes involving moves will > have to either commit or revert those changes before using a trunk > client that contains the changes currently still sitting on the > multi-layer-moves branch. I don't think this is a big problem. > > Whether we'll bump the format for 1.8 release is a separate issue. Agreed, and agreed. So far, we haven't found a need for a bump, and maybe we could keep it that way for 1.8. We already put people through the update wringer for 1.7... maybe let the dust settle a bit :-P Cheers, -g
