Switching a lightweight checkout when current bound branch no longer exists

[Brian de Alwis]

On 15-Jul-2010, at 8:40 AM, Gordon Tyler wrote:
> On 7/15/2010 2:58 AM, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>>> 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.

Wouldn't bzr need to know the corresponding revision of the working tree?

Brian.