Public branch is not the bound localtion. You need to run "bzr bind" to actually bind it. It will say "up to date with $REMOTE-LOCATION" rather than the local path. John =:-> <div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 21, 2013 7:06 AM, "Xue Fuqiao" <<a href="mailto:xfq.free@gmail.com">xfq.free@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> And I found another problem (not sure if I should create a new thread, since the two problems may be associated): $ bzr up Tree is up to date at revision 114731 of branch /home/xfq/emacs-repo/main/trunk But the latest rev for trunk is 114734 instead of 114731. I've already bound the local trunk to the upstream master by: echo "public_branch = bzr+ssh://<a href="http://xfq@bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk" target="_blank">xfq@bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk</a>" >> .bzr/branch/branch.conf bzr bind bzr+ssh://<a href="http://xfq@bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk" target="_blank">xfq@bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk</a> I read the output of "bzr help {bind, update, pull, working-trees}" and searched existing FAQs/questions but didn't get anything that looked promising. Any ideas? </blockquote></div>