Making branches and repos (was Re: Better name for dpush wanted)
Wouter van Heyst
larstiq at larstiq.dyndns.org
Wed Apr 29 20:58:34 BST 2009
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 04:53:54AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Matthew D. Fuller writes:
> > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 02:14:24AM +0900 I heard the voice of
> > Stephen J. Turnbull, and lo! it spake thus:
> > >
> > > It sort of makes sense, but "branch" takes a source branch and the
> > > target must not exist,
> >
> > That's an existing bias, and a bug. It would require fixing the bug
> > (which should happen anyway), and changing that bias. But any
> > reforming of these things will involve changing some bias
>
> I don't see a bug; the necessary operations are all do-able, the UI is
> a little annoying. Bias, yes. If you use the semantics
>
> bzr branch arg1 arg2 -> clone arg1 (branch URL) into arg2 (directory)
> bzr branch arg1 -> clone arg1 into ./`basename arg1`
> bzr branch -> initialize current directory as a branch
I'll note that `bzr init arg1` currently works, which you'd either have
to drop or become not as predictable for `bzr branch arg1`
Wouter van Heyst
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