What is a safe way of backing up a shared bzr repository

Aaron Bentley aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca
Tue Nov 20 04:15:13 GMT 2007


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Andrew Cowie wrote:
> I must confess that I like the
> term "clone" myself as that is often how I conceive of what I'm doing -

I'm not a big fan of this term, as I think it oversells the exactness of
the copy.  If you want an exact copy of something, cp -a will do that
for you.  "bzr clone" will produce something with a different parent
branch, and the presence of a working tree is determined by the target
location, not the contents of the source.  So cloning a standalone
branch can produce a standalone tree, or cloning a standalone tree can
produce a repository branch.

It doesn't even match our internals.  We actually have a "clone"
primitive for .bzr directories, but for "branch", we use "sprout", not
"clone".

Aaron
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