Switching between branches with uncommited changes.

[Michael Gliwinski]

Hello all,

Wanted to ask before I go logging tickets for it.

Currently `bzr switch` in lightweight checkout allows you to switch to 
different branch even if there are uncommited changes.  Is this by design?

The reason I'm asking is one of my fellow devs was just bitten by it (they're 
only starting to use Bazaar, or any VCS for the matter and forgetting to 
commit still happens quite a bit).

Still it seems to me that shouldn't be allowed by default.  What do others 
think?


Just to be clear, the behaviour I'm describing is:

$ bzr init-repo --no-trees switch-test && cd switch-test
...
$ bzr init trunk
...
$ bzr co --lightweight trunk work && cd work
$ echo foo > a
$ bzr add a
adding a
$ bzr ci -m "Added a."
$ bzr branch ../trunk ../feature-b
$ bzr switch ../feature-b/
Tree is up to date at revision 1.
Switched to branch: /home/gliwm/.local/tmp/switch-test/feature-b/
$ echo bar > b
$ bzr add b
adding b
$ bzr switch ../trunk/
Tree is up to date at revision 1.
Switched to branch: /home/gliwm/.local/tmp/switch-test/trunk/
$ ls -l
total 8.0K
-rw-r--r-- 1 gliwm gliwm 4 2009-11-11 14:31 a
-rw-r--r-- 1 gliwm gliwm 4 2009-11-11 14:32 b
$ bzr st
added:
  b


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