Naive questions re hard-linking repositories

[Aaron Bentley]

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Paul Moore wrote:
> Now I want to start a new local line of development. bzr branch a b
> seems the obvious thing to do. After all, a key point of a DVCS is for
> all repositories (local or remote) to be equal, so why shouldn't I use
> the same command here? But it isn't correct (as a was cloned from
> remote and isn't in a shared repo). Rather, I have to (rather,
> "should"):
> 
> 1. Create a repo
> 2. bzr branch a into the repo
> 3. Change to use the new copy of as in the repo, rather than the one I
> was using (which may involve transferring local uncommitted changes,
> fixing up directories in scripts, etc)

You can also
1. bzr init-repo $ANCESTOR_OF_A
2. bzr reconfigure --use-shared a

This does require that $ANCESTOR_OF_A is appropriate for use as a shared
repo.

Aaron
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