Stacked branches

[Joke de Buhr]

Well the bug report doesn't really describe a fix. It just says don't use 
stacked branches use normal branches and don't get any of the features of 
stacked branches.

If there is absolutely not effort in fixing this problem any time soon wouldn't 
it be wise to remove the chapter "stacked branches" form the documentation. 

Removing everything stacking feature from command line interface so that users 
can't use it if it doesn't work at all is difficult and a whole lot of 
individual changes to do. But the least thing to is add a big fat line to the 
"stacked branches" chapter that this features isn't working at the moment.

At least I don't see what part of stacked branches is working. The 
documentation says:
    "Stacked branches store just the unique revisions ..."
If there is no way to do commits to the stacked branch (not the stacked-on 
location) how can I create unique revisions?


Joke

On Thursday 21 January 2010 11:25:12 you wrote:
> Welcome to the club!
> I've been griping about this in the forum for some time. It was a design
> fault in the implementation of stacked branches and is apparently
> difficult to fix. The original developer doesn't seem to feel the
> obligation to correct his mistake and as yet the bzr team do not see the
> bug as sufficiently important to want to fix it.
> 
> As you imply, this bug seems to me to defeat the whole purpose of
> stacked branches.
> 
> You may be able to live with one of the workarounds suggested in the
> description of the bug report at the mentioned web site. For me neither
> of these workarounds is attractive as both require significant
> slow-downs and/or substantial disk space usage.
> 
> David.
> 
> Joke de Buhr wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > is it possible to work with stacked branches at all?
> > Every time I try to commit to a branch created with the --stacked option
> > bazaar reports this error:
> >
> >   bzr: ERROR: Cannot commit from a lightweight checkout to a stacked
> > branch. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/375013 for details.
> >
> > I can't seem to do anything described at
> > http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/bzr.2.0/en/user-guide/stacked.html
> 
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