Problems with push and branch

[Wouter van Heyst]

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:34:03PM +0100, Erik Bågfors wrote:
> > Oh, whoops, I misread this.  There's no support for branching _TO_
> > anywhere but the local filesystem, no.
> 
> Will this change?
> 
> With repositories I can see the following situation.
> 
> Someone using bzr in a centralized mode with checkouts, he/she has a
> checkout done this way
> 
> bzr checkout sftp://host/repo/trunk
> 
> And now wants to create a branch. I would expect that to be done with
> any of the following...
> 
> bzr branch trunk sftp://host/repo/branch (from the local checkout to
> the remote repo)
> or
> bzr branch sftp://host/repo/trunk sftp://host/repo/branch

I would probably want to do that for feature or personal branches, yes.

> I guess the procedure right now is
> bzr branch trunk branch
> cd branch
> bzr push sftp://host/repo/branch

If you want to have a local checkout/branch of the feature branch, you
end up with the same amount of steps, but in a different order. And in
the sftp case, with three times the traffic.

Wouter van Heyst