Creating a bzr branch out of a series of tarballs

[Aaron Bentley]

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On 11-03-07 03:44 PM, Eric Siegerman wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 12:04 -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:
>> The idea is that you do "import", and then you do "mv --auto", and
> then
>> you do "add", and then you commit.
> 
> That doesn't work; the "mv --auto" doesn't detect any moves at
> all!  This appears to be because "import" does the "add" itself,
> but "mv --auto" ignores files that have already been "add"ed.

Ah, my bad.  I wrote those several years apart, so I guess they don't
work together as well as I thought they would.

> So there's an impedence mismatch between "import" and "mv
> --auto".  ISTM that either "mv --auto" should be willing to
> consider already-"add"ed files as match candidates (the automv
> plugin does this, as I've just now discovered), or else "import"
> should not add them in the first place.

Probably the latter, as an option.

Aaron
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