RFC: Check local status before connecting to remote branch.

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 17:16 -0700, Raindog wrote:
> I think it would be best if bzr would perform a local verification prior 
> to connecting to a remote server to determine whether or not the 
> operation would succeed based upon the condition of the local branch.
> 
> For example, if my local branch is in a conflicted state, and I try to 
> update from the remote branch, bzr should make the failure check before 
> it tries to connect because it can know before hand that the operation 
> will fail.

Depending on the operation in question, this makes sense. (push for
instance can still work with a local conflicted tree, because push
pushes the branch tip, not the tree state). Please feel free to file
bugs where you notice bzr not doing this.

-Rob
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