Disposeable Branches

[John Arbash Meinel]

Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> Are branches disposable?  In other words, what harm is there in killing
> a branch after it has been merged into another branch?
> 
> Nathaniel
> 
> 
> 
Not much.
It is a little bit difficult to get back to that exact revision, as I'm
not sure that all of the bzr commands work for extracting an exact
revision. But in theory:

bzr branch -r revid:theexact-revision-2005123123-aoe234d24h23au new old

Should be able to regenerate your old branch.
The only thing that might be missing is the exact 'revision-history',
though you should end up with a *valid* revision-history nonetheless.

John
=:->

PS> Allowing non-revision-history revisions is not implemented in all
commands. And probably 'branch' is one of those. Though it should be
feasible, and not very difficult to do so. It just means depending on
revision-id rather than revno.


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