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 <div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 8, 2012 2:04 AM, "John Arbash Meinel" <<a href="mailto:john@arbash-meinel.com">john@arbash-meinel.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 =:-> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - <a href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org/" target="_blank">http://enigmail.mozdev.org/</a> iEYEARECAAYFAlAiK64ACgkQJdeBCYSNAAPCtwCcDEJp6e8qEkAGyZsYEJMJBacR LkIAoIWL5tgMeZ3pteuGDv8yqg1HcM+X =gUr7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- </blockquote></div>