Switching a lightweight checkout when current bound branch no longer exists

[Gordon Tyler]

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On 7/15/2010 8:54 AM, Brian de Alwis wrote:
> 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?

Hmm... After reading the help, I see that it preserves uncommitted
changes (unless --force is used). That would require knowledge of the
current branch, so I can see why.


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