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Re: BZR for Developers

 

On 7/20/2010 4:05 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> On 07/12/2010 03:34 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> On 7/12/2010 3:33 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
>>   
>>> On 07/12/2010 01:46 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>>>     
>>>> On 7/12/2010 1:14 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>>>> This page is the best I have found so far for regular developers:
>>>>>
>>>>>         http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BzrForEmacsDevs
>>>>>
>>>>> It gives the information that is needed for a developer, someone who
>>>>> contributes code.
>>>>>
>>>>> It is not particularly launchpad.net centric, and I am thinking about
>>>>> reworking it to match our situation.  Do people think this would be helpful?
>>>>>     
>>>>>         
>>>> I think it would be very useful.  I particularly liked the section on creating
>>>> a two way mirror. 
>>>>       
>>>
>>> That might not be as magic as it seems. Could be a consequence of the
>>> way they checked out the branch.  I'd dig deeper into that.
>>>     
>> I believe you're correct about this.  Using bzr checkout would have likely
>> preserved the link back to the main launchpad branch.
>>   
> 
> http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/latest/en/user-reference/configuration-help.html
> 
> Learning more, I see from above that:
> 
> *public_branch* is used only by "bzr send", so this would get set the
> first time you use bzr send if you don't echo it into the
> .bzr/branch/branch.conf file as shown.
> 
> 
> *bound_location* is the link back to the branch that a checkout was
> taken from.
> 
> 
> Doing the echo only saves you a one time prompt on your first usage of
> "bzr send".

Thanks for taking the time to do the research on this.

Wayne

> 
> Dick
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