Can I use a heavyweight checkout to build a new repo?

[Max Bowsher]

You should keep the bazaar mailing list on cc, to avoid unnecessarily
limiting your audience of potential help.

Unfortunately, based on your 'bzr info' output, I conclude that you
actually had a lightweight checkout, not a heavyweight one.

That being the case, it stores no history, so can't help you here.

Max.


On 07/08/12 03:39, Carlos Mundi wrote:
> Unfortunately, it appears that I cannot unbind my checkout now that the
> repo is gone!
> 
> $ *pwd*
> /home/cmundi/project
> $ *bzr info*
> Dangling branch reference (format: 2a or pack-0.92)
> Location:
>    control directory: .
>   checkout of branch: /var/repos/project/trunk/
> $ *bzr unbind*
> bzr: ERROR: Not a branch: "/var/repos/project/trunk/"
> 
> So I am not surprised that push fails with the same message.
> 
> I guess my question should be, how can I cut off a dangling branch
> reference.  Searching docs, bit not much luck yet...
> 
> Thanks,
> Carlos
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Max Bowsher <_ at maxb.eu
> <mailto:_ at maxb.eu>> wrote:
> 
>     On 06/08/12 22:39, Carlos Mundi wrote:
>     > Suppose I accidentally destroyed a repo.  And suppose no backup is
>     > conveniently within reach.  But I do have a heavyweight checkout,
>     which
>     > should have all of the information since the last time the checout was
>     > updated from the repo.  Is there a way to populate a new repo from the
>     > checkout and preserve all of the history that the checkout knows?
> 
>     Try 'bzr push <destination>' to transfer a copy of the local data to a
>     new branch-and-repo elsewhere, and 'bzr unbind' to tell the checkout to
>     remove its association with the destroyed remote branch, becoming a
>     standalone branch itself.
> 
>     Max.
> 
> 
> 


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