Comment 5 for bug 249256

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 249256] Re: bzr get fails in tree building ... sometimes

On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 23:51 +0000, Michael Hudson wrote:
> The problem is that RemoteRepositoryFormat._matchingbzrdir is set to the
> class RemoteBzrDirFormat at class level, and because of details in the
> way the repository format test multiplication is done, this attribute
> isn't actually accessed very much during the test suite.

Huh. _matchingbzrdir was never intended to be used outside of the test
suite - something is wrong here.

The point of _matchingbzrdir is to allow a test that wants to test a
particular repository type to create a bzrdir (and tree and branch) that
fit it. E.g. a svn environment etc.

-Rob
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