[RFC] Suggested directory names for branches

[Vincent Ladeuil]

>>>>> "aaron" == Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> writes:

    aaron> Hi all,
    aaron> There's a bit of mismatch between Bazaar and launchpad, because
    aaron> launchpad encourages branch names to end in "/trunk" and Bazaar defaults
    aaron> to using the last component as the directory name.

    aaron> And further, some projects have urls that do not end with the desired
    aaron> directory name.

    aaron> Does it make sense for branches to provide a "suggested dirname"?

    aaron> For example,

    aaron> $ bzr branch http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bzr/bzr-gtk/trunk

    aaron> would produce a directory named "gtk".

    aaron> This would work better with our current plugin development practices,
    aaron> which encourage people to install plugins by branching.  On the other
    aaron> hand, it's more config data to worry about.

    aaron> Really, I'd rather fix launchpad than Bazaar, but realistically, I
    aaron> figure I have more chance of fixing Bazaar.

    aaron> Thoughts?

1) the lp plugin can reconcile both :-)

2) Given that bzr-gtk itself requires to be named gtk, I'd say
the project should be renamed.

Then :

bzr branch lp://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bzr/gtk

should do the right thing.

       Vincent

Disclaimer: I didn't check launchpad policies nor lp plugin :p