bzr switch -r switches revision but gives incorrect output

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On 3/16/2011 2:21 PM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> ~/src/grub-bzr$ bzr switch -r 2587
> from debian bug 612987:
>
> Updated to revision 3089.
> Switched to branch: /home/josh/src/grub-bzr/
>
> Checking bzr log shows all the revisions up to 3089, but looking carefully at
> the actual working tree shows that it did switch to 2587.
>
> ** Affects: bzr
> Importance: High
> Status: Confirmed
>
>
> ** Tags: switch
>

log always shows the whole branch, rather than the WT's history. That
may be a different bug, but as long as the WT files are at 2587, *this*
bug seems invalid.
John
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This actually interacts very badly with -b, which is a really, really important thing to get right for collocated branches:

mathrick@megumi /tmp/switch $ bzr init branch
mathrick@megumi /tmp/switch $ bzr checkout branch/ checkout
mathrick@megumi /tmp/switch $ cd checkout/
Created a standalone tree (format: 2a)
mathrick@megumi /tmp/switch $ cd branch/
mathrick@megumi /tmp/switch/checkout $ touch file.txt && bzr add && bzr ci -m "Initial"
[...]
Committed revision 1.
mathrick@megumi /tmp/switch/checkout $ for i in `seq 4`; do echo "base $i" >> file.txt; bzr ci -m "Base commit $i"; done
[...]
Committed revision 5.
mathrick@megumi /tmp/switch/checkout $ for i in `seq 3`; do echo "Feature $i" >> file.txt; bzr ci -m "Feature commit $i"; done
[...]
Committed revision 8.

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# Oops, forgot to make a "master" branch to rebase feature branches onto
mathrick@megumi /tmp/switch/checkout $ bzr switch -b master -r 5
Updated to revision 8.
Switched to branch: /tmp/switch/master/
###############
# This is completely wrong, and I really wouldn't expect it to have modified the WT instead
mathrick@megumi /tmp/switch/checkout $ bzr st
modified:
  file.txt

In this case, not honouring -r is definitely a bug -- I wanted to make a branch of r5, but I got r8 which I now have to uncommit. Either way, bzr switch's docs don't make any mention of this behaviour, which is far from the obvious interpretation of the standard "see revisionspec" help blurb.