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[Aaron Bentley]

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Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 21.12.2007, 15:55 -0500 schrieb Aaron Bentley:

>> 2. Where possible, find_branch methods use Repository.find_branches().
>> This allows RemoteRepository to provide its own implementation.

> Sweet! This means bzr-svn can implement find_branches() so "bzr
> branches" can work against svn branches. I guess it would also make it
> easier to support git-like branches in the future...

Yes, I believe so.  In fact, chillingly enough, git-like branches don't
even need to be mapped onto the filesystem somewhere.

> It would be nice to have a docstring on BzrDir.find_branches().

Okay.

> I miss a test making sure that it doesn't find unreferenced nested
> branches.

What do you mean by "unreferenced nested branches"?

I have two modes for branches.  Either
- - find all the branches using a given repository or
- - find all all the branches under a URL

> The value '.bzr' is hardcoded in bzrlib/workingtree.py. Ideally, I think
> it should include other control dir names as well, but I can't think of
> an efficient way to do that right now.

You and me both.

Aaron
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