Switching a lightweight checkout when current bound branch no longer exists

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Nicholas Allen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was using a lightweight checkout of a branch which I then deleted
> (as it had been merged to trunk). I then tried to switch my
> lightweight checkout to a new branch but I got this error:
> 
> bzr: ERROR: Not a branch: "/path/to/orig/branch"
> 
> I guess this makes sense but Bazaar could be more intelligent here.
> The lightweight checkout stores the revision that the working tree is
> at and this revision is contained in the new branch I was trying to
> switch to. So Bazaar should still be able to perform the switch
> shouldn't it?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Nick

I believe '--force' might get you what you want.

John
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