New branch created accidentally

[Marco Pantaleoni]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Eric Siegerman <lists08-bzr at davor.org>wrote:

>
> That said, the question remains: should *push* be able to put
> what was a simple SR into that SR+B state?  That is, given:
>        bzr init-repo repo
>        cd repo
>        bzr init branch
>        cd branch
>        # populate and commit
>
> what should this do?:
>        cd .../repo/branch
>        bzr push ..
>

imho, it should complain, giving a brief explanation of the meaning and
consequences of the command, and suggesting the user to use
--use-existing-dir if it really intended to do that.


> Having found a use for the SR+B configuration, I now see a use
> for turning a simple SR into one -- it's one way to migrate from
> an existing SR to this new way of organizing things.
>
> The question is, is "bzr push" a good place for that?  I submit
> that "bzr reconfigure" would be a lot less, um, surprising.  And
> even if "push" should be able to do it, IMO --use-existing-dir
> should be required; without that option, the attempt should fail.
>
> Thoughts?
>

either "bzr reconfigure" or "bzr push --use-existing-dir" are +1 for me.

Marco

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