branch nicks and checkouts...

[John Arbash Meinel]

Erik Bågfors wrote:
> I would like a checkout to get the same branch nick as the branch it's
> bound to.
> 
> The following should work I'd think
> 
> cd branch
> bzr nick foobar
> cd ..
> bzr checkout branch branch1
> cd branch1
> bzr nick  -> should return foobar.
> 
> This is what happens if I run a lightweight checkout and it's
> surprising that they behave differently (well.. looking at how bzr
> works, it's not strange, but for a end user a checkout is just a
> lightweight checkout with a cache :) )

It seems possible. It we could add it as a step at the end of
'cmd_checkout'.

Alternatively, it could be done as part of the 'bind()' process. But I
think Robert wants to keep that as minimal as possible.

John
=:->

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