Getting a branch?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Neil Martinsen-Burrell writes:

 > If the other developer had history in his branch which is not incorporated into
 > your branch by merging, then that history is probably gone.  The .bzr directory
 > is where Bazaar stores *all* of its history information, so deleting that
 > directory deletes the historical information (in general; use of shared
 > repositories, created by "bzr init-repo" may mean that history is stored
 > elsewhere, but I don't think that history is recoverable without the branch
 > information from .bzr).

However, the current *state* of his changes will be preserved, right?

(Of course he should back up the current contents of the directory
before trying this!)