bzr branch . has a confusing error message
Bug #101952 reported by
Wouter van Heyst
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bazaar |
Confirmed
|
Low
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Users coming from other systems, notably git, are not always familiar with the Bazaar design.
To discover what available branches there might be, such a user might try:
`bzr branch`
bzr: ERROR: command 'branch' requires argument FROM_LOCATION
(or nothing in old versions, need to check that)
Trying the next best thing:
`bzr branch .`
bzr: ERROR: Target directory "." already exists.
Very confusing.
| Changed in bzr: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
Revision history for this message
| Wouter van Heyst (larstiq) wrote | #1 |
Revision history for this message
| Tim Hatch (timhatch) wrote | #2 |
| tags: | added: check-for-breezy |
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Whereas `bzr branch path/to/.` will happily branch . to dirname(path/to/.)
Since there is a check for existing directories that prevents fun with `bzr branch subdir/..`, but if branch
ever got something like --use-existing-dir ala bug 30576, that check might be gone.