Comment 1 for bug 420218

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote : Re: [Bug 420218] [NEW] status, commit, merge, pull, push should give context in checkouts

2009/8/28 Robert Collins <email address hidden>:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Checkouts are different from branches - they do action-at-a-distance.
>
> Judging by what UI's building on bzr are doing, showing people the
> actual branch that is being affect by a command is desirable.

It could be reasonable to show

  commiting from ~/bzr/foo
  to branch bzr+ssh://example.com/foo

and similarly for push, pull, etc

I don't really see the case for status - it just compares the tree to
it's basis - but then I rarely work in this mode.

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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>