'bzr cat' on a remote branch....

[Gary van der Merwe]

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:37 PM, John Szakmeister <john at szakmeister.net> wrote:
> I've been working on a plugin for QuickBuild (http://www.pmease.com/),
> and ran into a few interesting problems.  One of the biggest was being
> able to obtain the text of a remote file, so that QuickBuild could
> provide information about the change sets that went into the build.
> With the new Bazaar 2.2, I was able to use 'bzr cat -d url://to/branch
> path/to/file' to capture that information.  Is there any way of doing
> this without branching locally in bzr < 2.2?
>
> Also, it would have also been useful to have a '-o' option on 'bzr
> cat' to cat it to a file (since I could use shell redirection in this
> case).  I worked around that issue, since it wasn't too hard, but I
> could certainly see it being useful for others trying to do similar
> things.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> -John


bzr cat url://to/branch/file

It does not work on launchpad.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad-code/+bug/387119