Detecting out of date checkouts, plus bind without arguments

[Adeodato Simó]

* Aaron Bentley [Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:05:23 -0400]:

> John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> > I see 2 resolutions, 'unbind' could create '.bzr/branch/last-bound'. Or
> > we could store another flag somewhere to indicate if we are actually bound.

> I'd suggest .bzr/branches.conf.  You can have

> bind_location = sftp://my-upstream.com
> bind_active = no

> I'm currently working on fully integrating .bzr/branches.conf into our
> configuration system, so that you can specify any value there that you
> can specify in locations.conf.  (Except for dangerous options like
> gpg-signing-command and post-commit)

Aha. Sorry that I have to ask, but I've never used this file: is it
meant to be written to by bzr exclusively, by the user too, or by the
user only? My guess is that bzr will update it on eg. the first `bzr
push`, or on a `bzr pull --remember`, yes?

Also, when you say .bzr/branches.conf above, do you mean
$checkout/.bzr/branches.conf, or ~/.bazaar/branches.conf? If the latter,
I'm curious about what the rationale for taking this information from
the checkout into a global file is; for example, this would break when
moving a checkout from one directory to another.

Thanks,

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