allow to specify bundle type

TK Soh teekaysoh at gmail.com
Wed Apr 23 00:10:35 UTC 2008


On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Peter Meerwald <pmeerw at cosy.sbg.ac.at> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  the attached patch adds an option 'type' to Mercurial's bundle command; it
> allows to specify the bundle type (i.e. compression to use)
>
>  currently, Mercurial always uses HG10BZ (i.e. bzip2 compression) when
> creating bundle files; my central repo doesn't have bzip2 support, so I need
> to create uncompressed for gzip'd bundles

Just wondering, shouldn't mercurial be detecting bundle type of the
file by itself?

>  the default behaviour is not changed; I'd appreciate if this patch could be
> applied



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