Help: create branch outside shared-repo

[Colin D Bennett]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:45:43 +0200
Alexandru Draghina <alexandrei at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> For my first post on this mailing list, I need some help and advice
> about how should I do a little trick - actually the trick for which I
> started using bazaar :)
> 
> At work, I use a svn repo, file based, on a network share (we're only
> two people using it, but we had to set it up on the server so it's
> "safe") When I began using bzr, I did the following:
> 
> % mkdir ~/workspace
> % cd ~/workspace
> % bzr init-repo --rich-root-pack .
> % bzr co //path/to/svn/repo/bla/bla/trunk project_svn_trunk
> [.. bzr downloads the svn revisions, etc, creates a working tree in
> "project_svn_trunk", all nice and fluffy]
> % bzr branch project_svn_trunk src 
> [.. work on src/ .. commit, update, merge back to project_svn_trunk,
> commit to svn, etc]
> 
> At some point, I wanted to do some work at home (using a flash drive to
> carry the stuff over). So I did:
> 
> cd ~/workspace
> bzr branch project_svn_trunk /media/disk/work_for_home
> 
> The idea was to have a branch on the drive, that I could copy at home
> or work directly on the flash drive, but with the possibility to branch
> again from it, and then to merge it back at work.
> 
> ..it failed; i tried with "push". failed again. I created another repo
> on the flash drive (rich-root, again), and tried to "push" to it or to
> "pull"/"checkout" from a new branch in it. failed again.
> 
> The errors were about missing revisions or something (of course, since
> they were in the shared repo, inside ~/workspace/.bzr). Anyway.. is
> there a way to do this?
> 
> Basically, all I want to do is to branch from (inside) a shared repo
> (with rich-root-pack + bzr-svn), to a different location, work there,
> and then be able to merge back to a local branch (WORK-branch-svn ->
> WORK-branch -> FLASHDRIVE -> HOME-newbranch+etc -> merge back to
> WORK-branch). 

It should just work to branch out of a shared repo into a standalone
branch::

  cdb at gamma ~/school/cscd494/repo $ bzr info version_3.0/
  Repository branch (format: 1.9-rich-root or development-wt5-rich-root)
  Location:
    shared repository: .
    repository branch: version_3.0

  Related branches:
      push branch: svn+https://[...]
    parent branch: svn+https://[...]
  cdb at gamma ~/school/cscd494/repo $ bzr branch version_3.0 /tmp/copy_of_3.0
  Branched 11 revision(s).        

(URLs edited out because they're really long)

Regards,
Colin
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