use currently opened branch tab as source for Branch operation

[Alexander Belchenko]

Use case: I have opened branch in the tab. I want to create new branch. I'm invoke Bazaar -> Start -> Branch and intuitively expect my current branch will be used as source for this operation. Because qbranch dialog accepts the same arguments as CLI bzr branch, I think it make sense to pass the current branch location to qbranch as first argument.

Note: if I'll press Browse button in qbranch dialog then my current branch indeed will be highlighted in the select directory dialog. But it's not very intuitively and may have platform-specific beavior.

[Ian Clatworthy (ian-clatworthy)]

I use feature branches heavily for development. If I'm on a branch for a project and hit 'Branch', I typically want to:

* create a new branch for that project from *trunk*
* put it in the shared repo location

So I want to think more about this request to see what overlap/differences exist between our expectations.

[Alexander Belchenko (bialix)]

Ian Clatworthy пишет:
> I use feature branches heavily for development. If I'm on a branch for a
> project and hit 'Branch', I typically want to:
>
> * create a new branch for that project from *trunk*
> * put it in the shared repo location
>
> So I want to think more about this request to see what
> overlap/differences exist between our expectations.

In my case I was in need to create release branch from trunk.

You can provide some settings for "projects" in bzr-explorer, in fact I wrote my thoughts about
"projects" concept in qbzr ML when we discussd with Gary future qmain.

But for mere mortals using current branch as source for qbranch will be very useful in 90% cases IMO.

[Ian Clatworthy (ian-clatworthy)]

After further thought, I agree we ought to do this. It's a little messy to make happen given the current architecture though. Let me think about the internals a little longer on this one.

[Ian Clatworthy (ian-clatworthy)]

Try rev 256.