How to fix "dangling branch reference"

[Carlos Mundi]

Thanks, guys.  You're right, and I apologize for the noise.  I was so sure
that I had a heavy co that I didn't see what bzr was telling me.  Thanks
for putting me straight.

Carlos
On Aug 8, 2012 2:04 AM, "John Arbash Meinel" <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:

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> On 8/8/2012 10:54 AM, Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> > 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).
>
> If I followed the other thread, he doesn't actually have a
> 'heavyweight' checkout, but a lightweight one.
>
> If I do:
>
>  bzr branch bzr.dev test
>  bzr co --lightweight test light
>  bzr co test heavy
>  rm -rf heavy
>
> And then I do 'bzr info' in both of them:
>
>  light $ bzr info
> Dangling branch reference (format: 2a or pack-0.92)
> Location:
>    control directory: .
>   checkout of branch: D:/dev/bzr/test
>
>  heavy $ bzr info
> Repository checkout (format: 2a)
> Location:
>   repository checkout root: .
>         checkout of branch: D:/dev/bzr/test
>          shared repository: D:/dev/bzr
>
> Note that you only get 'Dangling branch reference' when you have a
> lightweight checkout. (And you can't 'unbind' a lightweight checkout,
> as there is no local branch.)
>
>
> Is there anything in: /var/repos/project/trunk/
> Such as /var/repos/project?
>
> Or is that all the stuff that got deleted?
>
>
> If you did have a heavyweight checkout, it wouldn't be hard to create
> a new shared repository. However, from all accounts you don't have a
> heavy (ie history-copying) checkout.
>
> John
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