Getting a branch?

[Neil Martinsen-Burrell]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> 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!)

Certainly.  Once he gets a new branch, he can copy in any changed files 
from his original working copy and check them in.  The only thing that 
will be lost is the sequence of commits that brought his working tree to 
its current state.

-Neil