Questions about the results of conversion using svn-import

[Scott Aubrey]

I stand corrected, thanks Jelmer. This sounds like a another win for  
seperate repository from branch :)

- Scott

On 21 Mar 2010, at 02:40 PM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 14:26 +0000, Scott Aubrey wrote:
>
>> On 21 Mar 2010, at 11:53 AM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> (snip)
>>>> I'm also curious about what makes up these branches.  All the
>>>> revisions/data for the branches are stored in the shared repo, but
>>>> is
>>>> there a way to discover/list the branches that exist within the
>>>> repo
>>>> itself.  Or is the data stored in the branch directories important
>>>> in
>>>> retrieving the appropriate data out of the repo?    Hmmmm... I
>>>> don't
>>>> know if I've explained that well .... put another way ... if I
>>>> delete
>>>> a branch directory, is there anyway to recover the branch from the
>>>> data stored in the repository alone?
>>> The repository is what stores the actual revisions. A repository can
>>> be
>>> colocated with a branch or be higher up in the filesystem (a shared
>>> repository). bzr-svn creates shared repositories by default unless
>>> you
>>> specify --standalone. "bzr info" will tell you the location of the
>>> repository that's being used by a particular branch.
>>>
>>> The branch is mainly just a pointer to a revision in the repository.
>>>> (snip)
>
>> I don't think this fully answer the OP's question.
>
>> The answer is (AFAIK)that if you accidentally deleted a branch, the
>> only way the recreate that is from another branch that contains that
>> revision already. So, if you only have one branch storing it's
>> revisions in a shared repo, then you delete that branch, AFAIK you
>> cannot bring that branch back from just the revision only, certainly
>> not using the standard bzr commands.
> You can recreate this branch using the standard Bazaar commands,  
> though
> it is a bit trickier than if you already have another branch that is
> based on the one you are trying to bring back to life.
>
> "bzr heads --dead" will tell you what revisions without ancestors  
> don't
> have a branch attached to them. Using the revision id it reports you  
> can
> resurrect the branch. ("bzr init x; bzr pull -d x
> -rrevid:<revid-found>")
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jelmer
>