How to switch a checkout of a bound branch

[Roland Mas]

Martin Pool, 2010-03-29 12:32:50 +1100 :

> On 29 March 2010 12:19, Stefan Monnier <monnier at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> If I do:
>>
>>  bzr branch --bind --no-tree somewhere/foo
>>  bzr branch --bind --no-tree somewhere/bar
>>  bzr co --lightweight foo baz
>>  cd baz
>>  bzr switch bar
>>
>> Bzr tries to switch my `foo' branch to bind to somewhere/bar, rather
>> than try to switch my `baz' checkout to point to my `bar' branch.
>>
>> This is rather unexpected and annoying.
>> The only way around it I've found is to do:
>>
>>  (cd ../foo; bzr unbind)
>>  bzr switch bar
>>  (cd ../foo; bzr bind)
>>
>> which is very inconvenient.  Is that done on purpose?
>
> So you're saying you want the relative URL to be computed based on the
> URL of the branch the checkout is directly bound to, but it seems to
> be computed relative to that of its master?  I don't think this is on
> purpose.  It should be easy to fix and test.  You can file a bug if
> there's not one already.

There is https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/506177 already.

Roland.
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