Merged assorted changes from be.wtk-rr for BugDir.extra_strings.

Other highlights:
  * be show --no-comments
  * Improved *.sync_with_disk.
  * Improved be-mbox-to-xml.

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+On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:20:10PM +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
+> On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 11:25 -0400, W. Trevor King wrote:
+> > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 03:13:05PM +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
+> > > On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 08:50 -0400, W. Trevor King wrote:
+> > > > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 01:54:54PM +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
+> > > > > 2. is there any model for storing bigger files at a central place (for
+> > > > > some of my bugs i have multi-megabyte tarballs attached)
+> > > > 
+> > > >   be comment ID "See the tarball at http://yourpage/something.tar.gz"
+> > > > Then to grab the tarball, you'd use:
+> > > >   wget `be show COMMENT-ID | sed -n 's/ *See the tarball at //p'`
+> > > > to grab it.
+> > >
+> > > so the basic idea is to do it completely self-managed
+> > > and have have heterogenous sources of extended data?
+> > 
+> > I assume "extended data" here refers to your tarballs.  What sort of
+> > homogenous source did you have in mind?  The comment body is currently
+> > just a binary blob for non-text/* types, otherwise it's text in
+> > whatever encoding you've configured.
+>
+> some kind of common upload target for a single project in order to have
+> more reliable sources of stuff thats related to bugs but doesnt fit into
+> the normal repository
+
+Sorry, I'm still having trouble with "doesn't fit into the normal
+repository".  It's going to be large wherever you keep it.  You
+worried about multiple branches all having these big tarballs in them
+and want a "lightweight" checkout without all the big
+tarballs/whatever?  I still think having some sort of "resources"
+directory on an http server somewhere that you link to from comments
+is the best plan.  If you use the
+  be show --xml ID | be-xml-to-mbox | catmutt
+approach, you can even write your comments in text/html and get
+clickable links ;).  A "push big file to remote and commit comment
+linking to it" script would be pretty simple and keep everything
+consistent.
+
+> > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 12:57:35AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
+> > > Ronny Pfannschmidt <Ronny.Pfannschmidt@gmx.de> writes:
+> > > 
+> > > > i want to see the combination of the bug data of all branches
+> > > 
+> > > How is a tool to determine the set of “all branches”? The distributed
+> > > VCS model means that set is indeterminate.
+> > 
+> > He could just make a list of branches he likes.
+> > 
+> > Ronny, are you looking to check bug status across several repos on the
+> > fly, or periodically run something (with cron, etc.) to update a
+> > static multi-repo summary?
+>
+> on the fly access
+
+Then listing bugs in a remote repo will either involve httping tons of
+tiny values files for each bug (slow?) or running some hypothetical
+BE-server locally for each repo speaking some BE-specific protocol
+(complicated?).  And how would you handle e.g. headless git repos,
+where nothing's even checked out?
+
+You could always run the cron job every 15 minutes, and rely on
+whatever VCS you're using having some intelligent protocol/procedure
+to keep bandwidth down ;).  If you need faster / more-efficient
+updates, you'll probably need to throw out polling altogether and
+setup all involved repos with a "push to central-repo on commit" hook
+or some such.
+
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+Alt-id: <20090712235502.GA10782@mjolnir.home.net>
+
+
+Content-type: text/plain
+
+
+Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:55:02 -0400
+
+
+From: '"W. Trevor King" <wking@drexel.edu>'
+
+
+In-reply-to: 8ffc90d7-0be7-4b00-88e6-9ae1b65f7957
+