Specifying a repository when creating a branch

[Aaron Bentley]

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James Blackwell wrote:
| On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 01:38:48AM -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:
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|>I've already said (on IRC) that I'd like the option of specifying a
|>particular repository, in the BzrDir API, when creating a branch.
|>Because I knew which repository it should use, and using anything else
|>wouldn't be desirable.
|>
|>Now, I've found another reason.  The created branch would have my
|>specified repository object, so you could lock the repository before
|>creating a branch in it.  That would be beneficial for baz-import,
|>because you could hold the repo lock from beginning to end.
|
|
| I'm just syncing on the your underlying drive. We'll have two modes of
| operation, correct?
|
|  1. By default, use the closest repository in a higher dir
|  2. Overriding this behaviour by specificying a particular repository.

No.  This is an API thing.  When you create your branch, you can specify
a repository.  If the specified repository isn't the closest repository
in a higher dir, the branch creation operation fails.  Otherwise it
returns a Branch object whose Repository is the one you supplied.

Aaron
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