How to chnage the URL after a branch location change

[Russel Winder]

On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 10:34 -0400, John Yates wrote:
> Jonathan Lange wrote:
> 
> > >    bzr init-repo --trees project
> > >    cd project
> > >    bzr branch <URL> upstream
> > >    bzr branch upstream local
> > >    ... work
> > >    ... then one day the original <URL> moves to another location
> > >
> > > How do I make the 'upstream' to point to a new <URL> location for pull 
> > > operations?
> > 
> > cd upstream
> > bzr pull --remember <NEW_URL>
> 
> Interesting that recording a <NEW_URL> is exposed as a side effect of pull.  What if I receive notification of a changed URL and want to act on that information before it slips my mind but am not ready to perform a pull?  Am I reduced to piercing the abstraction and editing .bzr/branch/branch.conf directly?
> 
> How will Explorer handle this use scenario?

You could use bookmarks.  Although the default is to store all bookmarks
globally I use a lot of branch-specific bookmarks.

	bzr help bookmark
	bzr help bookmarks

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