Tracking an 'upstream' project released as tarballs

[Gordon Tyler]

On 10/12/2009 1:06 PM, DeeJay wrote:
> Emptying the upstream mirror prior to unpacking the new tarball,
> either via the OS or via 'bzr remove', causes all manner of problems
> associated with folders that get moved and renamed - quite ugly - so
> is not a viable way to proceed.

Perhaps unpack the latest tar archive into a new folder and use a
directory synchronization tool to modify the bzr branch to match the
contents of the new folder? You'll still have to manually fix up moves
and renames though.

Ciao,
Gordon