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  • Committer: Martin Pool
  • Date: 2007-04-26 07:48:05 UTC
  • mto: (2420.2.2 bzr.http.auth)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 2462.
  • Revision ID: mbp@sourcefrog.net-20070426074805-va53nylsxqt7ur7u
Repository.tarball fixes for python2.4

Use 'r|bz2' to extract since r:bz2 is not supported
Replace extractall, which is not in python2.4
RemoteRepository._get_tarball returns a TemporaryFile
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modified:
  bzrlib/remote.py
  bzrlib/tests/test_remote.py
  bzrlib/tests/test_smart.py

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The basic idea of mirroring is good, but it's too hard to understand.
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Push mirrors and pull mirrors.
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Suggest that people commit to their local machine and then regularly
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mirror elsewhere as a backup.
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bk and darcs's design inherently avoids this; just make another repo
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and decide to use it that way.
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On the other hand they do not keep track of the progress of a patch.
 
 
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