Call for testing of colocated branch support in bzr.dev

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Hi Aaron,

Am 23/01/12 16:07, schrieb Aaron Bentley:
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> Hi Jelmer,
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> I tried this with bzr.dev, revno 6443 and it didn't work:
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> $ bzr init --development-colo foo
> Created a standalone tree (format: development-colo)
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> $ cd foo
> $ bzr branches
> * (default)
> $ bzr switch -b first-colo-branch
> bzr: ERROR: Cannot switch a branch, only a checkout.
It actually just seems to be in the 2.5 branch at the moment, I'll 
up-merge that into bzr.dev as well.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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> On 12-01-19 12:40 PM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Support for colocated branches in bzr.dev has now progressed to a
>> level where it is actually usable. At the moment, colocated branch
>> support still requires the 'development-colo' format. This should
>> be merged back into the default ('2a') format for 2.5.0 so it would
>> work out of the box with existing branches.
>>
>> Using it should be fairly easy once you have a branch in the
>> 'development-colo' format:
>>
>> $ bzr init --development-colo foo $ cd foo $ bzr branches *
>> (default) $ bzr switch -b first-colo-branch $ bzr switch -b
>> second-colo-branch $ bzr branches first-colo-branch *
>> second-colo-branch $ bzr switch first-colo-branch *
>> first-colo-branch second-colo-branch $ bzr rmbranch
>> second-colo-branch $ bzr branches * first-colo-branch
>>
>> etc.
>>
>> switch and rmbranch are currently the only commands that directly
>> accept a colocated branch name. We're working on adding similar
>> support to the other commands, such as merge, pull, push, missing,
>> branch and log. Until then, you can still address colocated
>> branches for those commands by using their internal URL. It's a bit
>> icky, but it works:
>>
>> $ bzr log file:///tmp/foo,branch=first-colo-branch ....
>>
>> or (if you're in the branch)
>>
>> $ bzr log file:,branch=first-colo-branch ...
>>
>> The known bugs for colocated branches can be found here:
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bugs?field.tag=colocated
>>
>> If you hit other bugs, please file a report. It would also be
>> interested to hear your general impression of colocated branches,
>> and what you like and don't like about it.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jelmer
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