How to change the branch a lightweight checkout points at?

[Jonathan Lange]

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On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Mary Gardiner  wrote:
> The quote is from bug 348208: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348208
>
> Moving to the mailing list since this is now a workflow question (although the
> bug is valid too, afaik).
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009, Robert Collins wrote:
>> well bind always operates on branches, so yes, 'bzr bind' on a
>> lightweight checkout will operate on the branch it points at. bzr bind
>> in a lightweight checkout does have uses, but its not common.
>
> As folks may recall, I started a thread a few months back about what a pain it
> is to work in heavyweight checkouts without network access. I've since adapted
> my workflow, so that it looks something like this:
>
> 1. I have a mainline at bzr+ssh://remote/remote-branch
>
> 2. On each machine I have a checkout of mainline at
>   /local/local-heavyweight-checkout
>
> 3. In order to actually work, I create branches of
>   /local/local-heavyweight-checkout at /local/feature-branch-1 ,
>   /local/feature-branch-2 etc
>
> 4. I work in /local/working-tree, which is a lightweight checkout of
>   /local/local-heavyweight-checkout (initially), and I use "bzr switch" to move
>   it between feature branches, and commit into them on and offline
>
> 4. Periodically, when online, I move /local/working-tree back to being a
>   lightweight checkout of /local/local-heavyweight-checkout , merge completed
>   feature branches back in, and commit.
>
> Anyway, my use-case for bzr bind was "damn, /local/working-tree is a
> lightweight checkout of bzr+ssh://remote/remote-branch rather than
> /local/local-heavyweight-checkout, I want to change that." Is this one of the
> uses of bzr bind on lightweight checkouts Robert refers to? If not, how do I
> accomplish this?
>

I do something like this:

echo -n 'bzr+ssh://remote/remote-branch' > .bzr/branch/location

I'm not aware of a Bazaar command to achieve the same effect.

jml
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