Bazaar Mercurial Plugin to access BitBucket

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at samba.org
Wed Oct 26 15:38:40 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 18:10 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> John Arbash Meinel writes:
> 
>  > > Pardon me if I'm wrong, but all three of those requirements are met
>  > > by lightweight checkouts of branches stored in a shared repository.
>  > > [...]
>  > > Roland.
>  > 
>  > Lightweight checkouts handle all the cases of colocated branches
> 
> No, they don't handle branch *creation*.  You need to have an existing
> branch to "bzr switch" to.  Colo is like having an infinite number of
> branches you can "switch" to just by naming them (but they have to
> have a tip at an existing commit).
"bzr switch -b newbranch" can do exactly this, and will create a branch
that is a sibling of your old branch (and switch to it) if you're
working in a lightweight checkout.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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