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

Andrew Cowie andrew at operationaldynamics.com
Tue Nov 20 07:07:54 GMT 2007


On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 23:15 -0500, Aaron Bentley 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 ...  "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. ... [nor]
> does it match our internals.  We actually have a "clone"
> primitive for .bzr directories, but for "branch", we use "sprout", not
> "clone".

Wow. [neat]

Can I suggest that perhaps a bit of this make its way into the text of
`bzr branch --help`? I wouldn't go so far as to call it a bug, but that
sort of behaviour difference is the sort of thing that can trip people
up.

... or remove the behaviour difference :)

AfC
Sydney

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