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Re: bzr handholding: moving branches inside a shared repository


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: bzr handholding: moving branches inside a shared repository
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:31:51 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux)

> Which is correct? If I have my branch in a directory called "trunk"
> inside a shared repository, can I safely rename it to "trunk-foo"?

Yes.

> If I copy it to "trunk-copy", does this become an independent copy?

Yes.

But other branches may refer to "trunk" in their .bzr/branch/branch.conf
file, so subsequent "bzr merge" (or similar) commands may keep trying to
refer to "trunk", at which point you'll have to explicitly use "bzr
merge --remember ../trunk-foo" to update the corresponding data.


        Stefan




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