bzr branch leads to empty folder

[Martin Pool]

On 18 August 2011 00:10, Marius Kruger <amanic at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16 August 2011 11:36, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
>> bzr never builds working trees over ftp: branch directories will
>> always contain just a '.bzr' directory, which may be hidden by
>> default.
>
> As you know, this is a common gotcha.
> I wonder if we can make it more discoverable like writing a special
> non-hidded file
> when we create a treeless branch eg. bazaar-treeless-branch.txt
> which contains some info about what is going on.
> When you do actually do a checkout, this file should be deleted.

It's a good idea, and quite technically possible.  There's a bug
asking for it.  Would you like to have a go at it?

The other thing I'd like is to at least optionally actually build the
tree over ftp.

Martin