What is the purpose of `rmbranch` command?

[Vincent Ladeuil]

>>>>> Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at canonical.com> writes:

    > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 02:17:24PM +0200, Vincent Ladeuil wrote:
    >> >>>>> Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at vernstok.nl> writes:
    >> 
    >> <snip/>
    >> 
    >> >> 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.
    >> 
    >> But in those cases, the control directory (we're all talking about
    >> '.bzr' not '.bzr/branch' right ?) is therefore not empty.
    > That makes the behaviour of "bzr rmbranch" fairly unpredictable
    > though.

Hmm, I don't fully agree but better understand your point.

    > I can see the argument for removing a control directory if it's
    > completely empty, but I think we should be more consistent about that
    > - "bzr remove-tree" should do the same, and we should have a way to
    > remove a repository from a control directory.

I agree with that too (with added controls in the repository case that
no branches uses the repository).

  Vincent