<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> On 7/04/10 2:19 PM, Eric Berry wrote: <blockquote type="cite"> <div class="gmail_quote"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 'bzr info' of my branches shows that they are standalone branches, so I can just remove the branch directory and that's the end of story, right ?? If it was a shared repo, then things seem to get more complicated. Google searches reveal plenty of questions on this topic but no definitive answers. Is there consistent way to end a branch and remove it for all types of branches ?? </blockquote> <div> I don't quite understand. What do you mean by end a branch for all types of branches? </div> </div> </blockquote> I was thinking of standalone versus shared, but maybe I am confused about branches and repositories ?? Does it make sense to create a feature branch as a shared branch ??  I'm guessing not. If it was a shared branch, and everything is merged into the parent branch, then blowing away the entire shared branch would be fine too, right ?? I also noticed that branches can be stacked.  I haven't used a stacked branch so I don't know how they really work, except that they depend on the availability of the source branch (must be local ?? or can be remote ??).  My guess is blowing away a stacked branch would not affect the parent branch so it has the same affect as a non-stacked branch. So the rule is just delete your local branches when not needed any more -- must merge to parent branch if the changes are to be kept. The only exception seems to be if a feature branch is created in a shared repo, and commits are made, and then the branch removed.  The result the feature branch is still in the history of the shared repo. So is there a 'bzr rmdir' or 'bzr branch --delete' command that would do the 'right thing' ... if the repository is shared or not ?? Cheers, Brendan. </body> </html>