bzr bundle > file

[Martin Pool]

On 8/3/07, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > As of recently, "bzr bundle > file.diff" has broken - bzr now complains
> > about using --output:
> >
> > bzr: ERROR: File must be specified with --output
> >
> > I tend to use this quite a lot, and I know other people do too. Is there
> > a particular reason for forcing people to specify --output rather than
> > defaulting to writing to stdout ?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jelmer
>
> Open bug:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/129504
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/129724
>
> Basically, it is because of how we "upgraded" to use 'send' instead of
> 'bundle'. And 'bundle' just became a deprecated alias of 'send'.
>
> We have 2 bugs open that indicate we want to restore the previous behavior,
> though we will make 'bundle' a deprecated command.
>
> 'send' will eventually be a better command line interface, but we need to wean
> people off of 'bundle' first.
>
> Oh, and you can do "bzr send -o- > file.diff". (so right now you can do the
> same for bundle).

I think we really must restore the previous default of writing to
stdout for bundle before releasing 19rc1.

-- 
Martin