Re: Strange message from "bzr pull"

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:40:08 +0100
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:30, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > What surprised me was that I never saw such messages from "bzr pull"
> > when the bzr repository was just the result of CVS conversion by
> > Andreas, as opposed to a writable repository it is now.  Why didn't I
> > see such messages back then?
> 
> Have you installed the repo anew after the switchover?

Yes.  (The previous one was on another box, anyway.)

> AFAIK, the M means that the working copy file has been updated. The
> original instructions had the trunk created with
> 
>   bzr branch --no-tree sftp://...
> 
> so trunk/ had no working copy. Karl changed that perhaps two weeks ago.

You are right, thanks for unlocking the mystery.

But why were these instructions changed?  I thought having the trunk
treeless had some clear advantages, the physical impossibility of
editing there being one of them.

Karl?