query: purpose of branch-name file?

Aaron Bentley aaron at aaronbentley.com
Thu May 1 17:59:51 BST 2008


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Martin Pool wrote:
> At minimum, creating the file from the command level regardless of the
> format is not clean.  But looking into it, I can't see that this file is
> _ever_ read back.  What's it meant to be for?  Can we just delete it?

It is never used.  We can certainly delete it.  In fact, revno 3000 was
supposed to do that.  (Apparently it didn't go quite far enough.)

Aaron
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