Switching a lightweight checkout when current bound branch no longer exists

[Gordon Tyler]

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On 7/15/2010 2:58 AM, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Nicholas Allen wrote:
>> 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 believe '--force' might get you what you want.

Why does bzr care if the original branch exists? All it's doing is
finding the parent (which is a string operation) and then looking for
the new branch.

Ciao,
Gordon


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