Converting standalone branch to inside-repo branch?

[Andrew Cowie]

On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 18:15 +0200, Nicholas Allen wrote:
> Perhaps it would be nice if init-repo could detect there were existing 
> branches under it and ask the user if they want to move the history into 
> the shared repo. 

I ran into this the other day. I agree it would be a cool feature.

You might run into the problem of it being too jealous

 - if you accidentally do `bzr init-repository` in /, you're in for a
ride; and

 - how many levels down do you go, in the case where people are nesting
branches in (empty) convenience directories [ie we have
repository/mainline and repository/hackers/person1/branches and
repository/hackers/person2/branches, both hackers and person{1,2} are
empty not branches not "repos"]

still, seems like it could just work, ie "if there are no .bzr
directories in directories immediately below this one, then don't worry
about looking for branches' revisions to pull up, just make the new repp
and get on with it.

> or it could just do it anyway as I can't think of a case where 
> one would want to keep a branch inside a repo that didn't store its 
> history in the repo.

Me neither. Sounds like a sensible default & no need for an option.

AfC
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