How to recreate working tree in branch that was pushed over sftp?
Martin Pool
mbp at canonical.com
Mon Aug 14 05:39:25 BST 2006
On 11 Aug 2006, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:
> Aaron Bentley пишет:
> Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> >>I push one branch from one machine (win32) to another (Linux) over sftp.
> >>Push works correct. Branch was pushed first time (on target machine this
> >>branch did not exist before).
> >>
> >>Because push does not update (and create) working tree I try to recreate
> >>it on Linux machine by 'update' and 'revert' commands. Both attempts
> >>fails with explanation that there is no WorkingTree in .bzr/checkout.
> >
> >You can run 'bzr checkout .' to put a working tree there.
>
> Thank you. It's works, but slightly unclear at first sight.
I agree, it is rather unclear. How should we improve it?
The basic feature is that you can have directories which contain only a
branch and not a working tree. This is useful in a few ways:
- Branches updated over sftp don't create or update a working tree.
- For something used only as a central repository, having the working trees
would be a waste of time & space.
- People might want to get rid of the working tree but keep the branch,
e.g. if they're low on disk space.
I think generally the default ought to be to create them where possible.
Possibilities:
1- create a README file in a directory with no working tree explaining
what's there
2- the message from push should explicitly point you to the checkout
command.
3- the error about "there's no working tree here" should tell you how to
make one
4- update and revert should possibly build a working tree if there is
not one there; they're plausible things to try
Somewhat separate from Alexander's question, perhaps we should revisit
handling of trees in repositories. I keep all my working trees inside a
repository. Perhaps we should add --checkout, --no-checkout
(or --tree, --no-tree) options to branch, and remove the hidden setting
in the repository that controls this.
--
Martin
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