Colocated branch progress

[Jelmer Vernooij]

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On 03/08/11 02:14, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> The ability to address colocated branches using URLs has long been in
> progress (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/380871). After brainstorming a
> bit with John and Martin at the recent Launchpad sprint, I'm finally
> back on track hacking on it.
>
> There are basically four things left to do now:
>
> 1) Avoid URLescaping comma's when converting local paths to URLs.
> (lp:~jelmer/bzr/escape-comments)
> 2) Preserve the distinction between literal and delimiting comma's in
> URLs when they are parsed in e.g. ConnectedTransport (2)
> 3) Parse the subsegment parameters for Transports and make them
> accessible (done, lp:~jelmer/bzr/transport-segments)
> 4) Look at the transport segment parameters in ControlDir and use them
> to determine the default branch (this should be fairly easy)
All this has now finally happened, and is currently pending for landing
on bzr.dev.

This means that with control directory formats that support it, you can
now do things like:

 $ bzr log "file:///path/to/repo,branch=foo

We might add shorter forms of this available in the future, but will
have to be careful to not break other use cases. For example, supporting
"/tmp/repo,branch=foo" will break things for people who actually have
branches with a comma in their name.

There are also two pending branches that make it possible to list
colocated branches ("bzr branches") and switch between them using "bzr
switch".

Cheers,

Jelmer
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