Code review comment for lp:~jelmer/launchpad/bzr-code-imports-ui

On 26/06/11 23:26, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote:
> Another direction the UI could go of course would be to not overly
> distinguish between the various import types and just let the foreign
> branch plugins figure it all out. This feels like it would make for a
> simpler user experience, but it would also certainly be a big change. I
> wonder if it might seem a bit too magical?
That's an interesting idea. "bzr branch" has that magic to figure out
what format the source branch is in too, and it seems to work fine
there. One way to do this would be to add a "AUTO" value to
RevisionControlSystems that simply tries the probers registered for each
of the CodeImportWorkers. That would (I think) be a minimal amount of
work, though it would of course only work for those importers that
actually have probers (BZR, BZR_SVN, GIT, HG).

CVS would still need to be special, but I guess there's no way around
that anyway, as it requires a root and a module to be specified.

Cheers,

Jelmer