What is the purpose of `rmbranch` command?

John Arbash Meinel john at arbash-meinel.com
Wed May 16 12:13:39 UTC 2012


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>> I don't think Alexander asked for a separate command. Instead,
>> AIUI, his point is that it makes little sense to remove the
>> branch and leave an otherwise *empty* control directory (not to
>> mention other possible bugs when trying to interact with this
>> empty directory).
> This isn't always the case though - there can be other colocated 
> branches, a repository or a working tree. We have no way to remove
> a repository for example.
> 
> As far as I understand this would unversion the current directory,
> which would seem a bit odd. Am I misunderstanding something?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jelmer
> 

bzr branch --no-tree lp:bzr target
bzr rmbranch target

Arguably, there should be no 'target/' directory left. Certainly that
is what people expect.

John
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