[rfc] 'bzr reconfigure --stacked-on/--no-stacked'

John Arbash Meinel john at arbash-meinel.com
Mon Dec 1 19:07:08 GMT 2008


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Martin Pool wrote:
> There is at present no user-accessible way to change a branch between
> being stacked on another repository, and containing all its history in
> its own repository.  I think there should be.  It would be useful in
> general, and in particular as a workaround if people are having
> trouble with stacking on Launchpad, which suggests that setting for
> some projects.  Basically this is just to expose the
> Branch.set_stacked_on() call.
> 
> I think this belongs in 'reconfigure'; it shouldn't be invoked often
> enough to need its own command.
> 

I agree with the general sentiment. It is a bit tricky to get right (if
you take a branch with full history, and reconfigure it to be stacked-on
something, do you remove what you already have?)

But I think that "bzr reconfigure" is the right place to put it.

John
=:->

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