Repository referencing in command lines

[Wouter van Heyst]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 06:11:43AM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:

<snip>

> Listing them separately makes it easier to treat them separately.  For
> instance, most of my work on a given project is probably going to be
> in a single repository.  So if I've got a "foo.main" branch, and I've
> been working on a feature in "foo.mindreading", I want to merge from
> main by typing something like
> 
>     % bzr merge foo.main
> 
> I don't want to be typing
> 
>     % bzr merge sftp://me@server/home/fullermd/work/repos/foo/foo.main

I would probably have foo.main checked out alongside foo.mindreading:

      % bzr merge ../foo.main

You might object against that because of diskspace or again using paths,
for that I lean towards branch aliases and or matching substrings in
branches.conf.

Wouter van Heyst