New branch created accidentally

[John Arbash Meinel]

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On 1/25/2011 7:06 PM, Eric Siegerman wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 23:25 +0100, Danny van Heumen wrote:
> How about the Shared Repository use-case?
>> I'm curious how deleted branches are handled and how much information
>> remains (if any) in case the branch was using a shared repository.
> 
> *All* of the revision data stays in the shared repo.  A branch
> within a shared repo is essentially just a pointer to its head
> revision within the repo's revision store; deleting the branch
> gets rid of the pointer, but Bazaar never garbage-collects the
> now-unreferenced revisions.
> 
> (My question to JAM was intended to be modulo this point.  Sorry
> I didn't make that clear.)

Right. Only the shared-repo data was the case that some people care
about, where just deleting the branch isn't sufficient.

John
=:->


> 
> If you really need the revision data to go away (e.g. if you've
> committed the proverbial nuclear launch codes), you can do it
> yourself, but it's rather cumbersome.  See:
>     https://answers.launchpad.net/bzr/+question/38732
> especially the answers from John Arbash Meinel (2008-07-10) and
> Aleksandar (2008-09-02).
> 
>   - Eric
> 
> 
> 

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