Branch configuration

Robey Pointer robey at lag.net
Wed Jan 25 03:01:30 GMT 2006


On 24 Jan 2006, at 13:38, Robert Collins wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 15:22 -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>
>> This was an old discussion back when Robert & I wrote push at the  
>> same
>> time. I think he *didn't* want the push target to be copied when  
>> doing a
>> 'cp -ar' which is why he put it in ~/.bazaar/branches.conf
>
> Right. Making a new branch by cp or 'bzr branch' should discard
> transient data.

But if I do 'mv bzr.robey/ bzr/bzr.robey', my push info will vanish.   
That adds a dependency between where I happen to store my branch and  
important branch meta-data.  I don't think anything else in bzr  
depends on the layout of my home folder, so it leaves a bad taste in  
my mouth.

robey





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