How to fix "dangling branch reference"
Alexander Belchenko
bialix at ukr.net
Wed Aug 8 08:54:36 UTC 2012
Carlos Mundi пишет:
>
> Hi,
>
> Now that I'm a little wiser (thanks to Max) I will re-ask my question.
>
> I have a heavyweight checkout of a branch. The branch has "gone away."
> I would like to 'unbind' my checkout so that I can 'push' it to a new
> branch. But 'bzr unbind' fails with... wait for it.... a "dangling
> branch reference" message.
>
> So how can I sever this dangling branch reference so that my checkout
> acts like a regular branch? A bzr built-in command would be great, but
> I am happy to follow filesystem-level procedures. (On a copy of the
> checkout folder of course!)
With bzr 2.5.1 I don't have error on unbind when master branch is gone
away, but maybe you have something special in your case.
You should be able to edit .bzr/branch/branch.conf and change option
"bound" to False:
bound = False
(for heavyweight checkout it should be set to True).
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