[RFC] should ((checkout and bind) or reconfigure) be able to update other locations too?

Brian de Alwis bsd at cs.ubc.ca
Thu Jan 22 18:21:12 GMT 2009


On 22-Jan-2009, at 9:10 AM, Marius Kruger wrote:
> 2009/1/22 Aaron Bentley <aaron at aaronbentley.com>
> To start using a local mirror of trunk:
> 1. bzr checkout http://example.org/trunk
> 2. echo 'public_branch=http://example.org/trunk' >>
> trunk/.bzr/branch/branch.conf
> 3. bzr merge -d ../existing-branch . --remember
[...]
> An option is to give `bzr reconfigure` the ability to do this:
> bzr reconfigure --set-push-location --set-pull-location http://...
> bzr reconfigure --set-public-branch http://...
> Does anybody have objections to this?
> If so do you have a better idea of how we could support this?

I strongly agree with Marius' suggestion to have some way to  
manipulate the various *.conf files from the command line.  The  
contents of .bzr/ should be opaque to almost all but the most hardened  
of users, IMHO.

Brian.

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