Disposeable Branches

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 10:26 -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> 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.

Yah, the r-h *will* almost vertainly be different.. if you try this and
it fails, please file a bug :)

Rob

-- 
GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/attachments/20051221/622eabc7/attachment.pgp