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[Gavin Panella <gavin.panella@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 27 October 2010 13:53, Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
>> IOW, the full branch URL has a different name than the short URL.
>>
>
> The full "unique name" is lp:~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable. The
> short name is lp:launchpad/edge. That's because we've associated the
> branch with the 'edge' series of Launchpad. I don't think anyone cares
> too much about the association.
>
> It's not a bug. You can associate arbitrary branches to arbitrary
> series, regardless of how they are named.

D'oh, of course.

I guess it might be nice if branches had just one identity in
Launchpad, or if referring to a branch via a series was very obviously
a symlink-like operation.

Thanks again, and sorry for the noise.

Gavin.