"bzr branches" broken?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org>
> Cc: bazaar at lists.canonical.com
> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:40:17 +0100
> 
> On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 09:08 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Is it me, or did the latest versions break "bzr branches"?  In my
> > local branch I get this:
> > 
> >   D:\gnu\bzr\emacs\emacs-24>bzr branches
> >   * (default)
> > 
> > And if I do the same with the repository, whether remote or shared
> > local, I get an empty response.
> > 
> > Looks like it tries to report co-located branches instead?  Is this a
> > bug?  Should I report it (and if I do, will someone fix it)?
> This is the new branches command that is part of bzr itself (rather than
> bzrtools) and reports colocated branches by default.

Is there a way to invoke the command from bzrtools instead?

> For behaviour similar to what you were used to (dead slow on remote
> locations), specify -R.

What exactly does -R do?  The documentation doesn't explain what
"recursive" means in this context, as if it's supposed to be
well-known.  But it isn't.

Thanks.