Newbie questions

[Martin Pool]

On 11 Oct 2006, Lachlan Patrick <loki at research.canon.com.au> wrote:
> Lachlan Patrick wrote:
> > Hi, sorry, I have some newbie questions:
> > 
> > 1. bzr whoami doesn't need real email addresses does it?
> >    I mean, it doesn't actually send emails, it's just a
> >    globally unique identifier right?
> > 
> > 2. bzr remove filename gives me an error saying the file
> >    isn't versioned. I had previously typed bzr init, and
> >    all the files in all subdirectories got added, then I
> >    typed bzr commit -m "version 1", which worked, so why
> >    can't I now remove one of those files?
> 
> Sorry, my mistake, item 2 isn't an error, ignore that one.
> 
> I'm trying to put several versions of software (stored in tarballs) into
> a bzr repository in order. I'm trying to replicate what changed in each
> version so that the bzr repository stores an accurate history, but I
> just got some things wrong. I guess in general I should add new files
> then remove old ones, but actually I want each new version to be
> atomically different.

If you just unpack each one and then commit it this should be fine.  The
only thing is that you'll need to make sure files deleted from one
tarball to the next are deleted in the working directory.  There are
various ways you could do it, but one of the simplest is probably to
just delete everything but the .bzr directory after each commit, then
unpack the next.

-- 
Martin