Switching a lightweight checkout when current bound branch no longer exists

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Gordon Tyler wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

Info about uncommitted changes are stored in the WT not the branch.

John
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