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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