bzr branches shows empty list inside a shared repository without trees but which has branches inside

[Nicholas Allen]

Create a shared repository without trees.
Add some branches inside that repository.
change to repository directory.
run "bzr branches"
It doesn't print the list of branches in the repository but returns an empty list.

This used to work in older bzr versions.

[Nicholas Allen (nick-allen)]

cd /tmp
mkdir test
cd test/
bzr init-repo --no-trees .
Shared repository (format: 2a)
Location:
  shared repository: .
bzr init test-branch
Created a repository branch (format: 2a)
Using shared repository: /tmp/test/
bzr branches

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

I agree that would be nice. If you have a lightweight checkout pointing at one of the branches in a repository, then 'bzr branches' does what you want.

But ideally it would work in the repo by itself.

bzr init-repo --no-trees test
cd test
bzr init foo
bzr init bar
bzr branches # doesn't show anything
cd bar
bzr branches # only shows something about (default)
cd ..
bzr co --lightweight bar work
bzr branches # shows foo and bar and bar being the current branch