Re: Creating shared dev branch

[Bill Wohler]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

> > Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 09:47:51 -0800
> > From: Bill Wohler <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > 
> > The MH-E developers are having a Bug Squashing Party (BSP) on Tuesday,
> > 12/27. Since Emacs has not yet been released, I'd like to create a dev
> > branch for our work which will be merged back into trunk after the Emacs
> > release.
> > [...]
> > Can anyone suggest a comparable recipe for Bazaar?
> 
> 100% untested:
> 
>  bzr branch trunk/ bug-squash/
>  cd bug-squash/
>  bzr push --remember bzr+ssh://address@hidden/emacs/bug-squash/
> 
> From now on, all commits in bug-squash/ will go to the public branch
> on savannah.
> 
> (If you don't like the name "bug-squash", change it as you see fit;
> there's nothing magic about it.)
> 
> Note that the public branch created by the above commands will NOT be
> a bound branch.  If you want a bound branch, like trunk is, you will
> need to "bzr bind" it afterwards.
> 
> HTH

It does, indeed! Thanks!

You're fine with me creating a branch called "mh-e" at the top-level
rather than in some sub-directory? There appears to be a directory
called other-branches.

Also, any concerns about the disk space this branch will take (~300 MB)?

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