Working with co-located branches

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 09:56:34AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Is there anything in the docs of bzr 2.5.0 that describes how to work
> with co-located branches introduced with the 2.5 series?  The only
> thing I see is this short notice in "What's New":
> 
>   Basic colocated branch support
> 
>   The UI now has basic support for colocated branches. In full URLs, a
>   specific colocated branch can be specified using URL path segment
>   parameters. For example a branch named stronk could be addressed using
>   http://example.com/path/to/dir,branch=stronk.
> 
>   The new bzr branches command can be used to list all present branches
>   in a directory, and indicates what the currently active branch is.
> 
>   Several commands also accept co-located branch names directly, such as
>   bzr switch.
> 
> That's rather minimal.  It would perhaps be enough if the integration
> were transparent, but it doesn't seem to be.  See, for example, my own
> difficulties in this thread:
> 
>   https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2012q2/074712.html
> 
> As another example, I cannot find any documentation on how to create a
> branch co-located with an existing branch.
> 
> What am I missing?
Colocated branch support is there, but still pretty basic and
unpolished. We haven't e.g. added docs for it yet for this reason.

bzr-git probably shouldn't be encouraging its use yet in a released
version, and perhaps require a --colocated option to create colocated
branches. I'll update it to do so, similar to the way this works in
bzr-svn.

Cheers,

Jelmer

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