Hard to branch into a subdirectory

[Dan Watkins]

Neither
    $ bzr branch pyblosxom.old/pyblosxom-upstream/ upstreams/
nor
    $ bzr branch pyblosxom.old/pyblosxom-upstream/ upstreams
allow me to branch pyblosxom.old/pyblosxom-upstream/ into upstreams/pyblosxom-upstreams. I have to do
    $ bzr branch pyblosxom.old/pyblosxom-upstream upstreams/pyblosxom-upstream

This is irritating, because I then have to check the new name for typos.

[James Westby (james-w)]

Hi,

"upstreams" already exists I assume?

The only argument I could see against this is that the user
would be surprised if they didn't expect "upstreams" to exist,
and intended that to be the branch, but it's not irrecoverable,
so I don't think it would be a problem.

Thanks,

James

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

Well, you can also do "cd upstreams && bzr branch ../pyblosxom.old/pyblosxom-upstream".

Alternatively we could support "bzr branch -d upstreams pyblosxom.o....", though that is a slightly different of a meaning of -d than we usually have.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

That -d usage seems consistent - do the operation in the upstreams directory.