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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Oct 6, 2009, at 9:41 AM, Aaron Bentley wrote:
>
>> You're not supposed to be creating branches to replace other branches,
>> so I don't think we want to spend a lot of effort on that case.
>
> It happens though.  Witness what I had to do to upgrade my branches to 2a
> (something that's going to happen a lot now, right?).  Maybe if there were a
> way to clear out the branch/repository and reuse the Launchpad
> shell-of-a-branch, that would be sufficient.

That Launchpad doesn't provide an easy way to upgrade a branch is a
bug -- a bug that even has an in-progress fix!

jml