New branch created accidentally

[John Arbash Meinel]

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On 1/26/2011 2:33 PM, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> On 1/26/2011 12:13 PM, Eric Siegerman wrote:
...
> The original use case was that you can define whatever naming structure
> that you want for your project. For example you could do:
> 
>  bzr branch $URL/project
>     trunk of the project
>  bzr branch $URL/2.3
>     a release series for the project
>  bzr branch $URL/2.3/feature
>     an in progress feature that is targeted at the 2.3 series
> 


I think what motivated me originally for this was that doing:

 bzr branch $URL/project

Gave you a target named "project" rather than "trunk". Today we've
gotten around this with "lp:project". It is mostly happy accident
because the code that determines the target name takes it from the
string the user supplies rather than from the full URL of the branch you
actually accessed. (lp:bzr expands to
bazaar.launchpad.net/~bzr-pqm/bzr/bzr.dev but you get a directory 'bzr'
on disk.)

Note that stuff like collocated branches can also provide a similar
experience. Though at that point, you really are saying something more
like:  bzr branch/clone $REPO and getting a bunch of branches in the target.

John
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