branch --delete subcommand

[Jelmer Vernooij]

It would be nice if "bzr branch" could have a --delete option, since branches don't necessarily have to be on the file system (e.g. GIT-style branches, branches in a remove svn repository).

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

I don't think this belongs on the 'bzr branch' command. I believe it is there for "git branch" but the general flow of that command is very different from bzr's command. I'm not opposed to having some sort of "delete my branch" but I don't think it fits 'bzr branch' very well.

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

It would be nice to be consistent with "bzr tag", which also has --delete

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

I think John and I agree that it would be nice to have such a command, but disagree where it should be. John, if not, please speak up :-)

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

Sounds right. I think having the command is good, having it hang of from "branch" isn't really the right location. If anything, *I* would put it under "bzr reconfigure --delete-branch".

I realize that there exists "bzr tag --delete" but I personally feel that "bzr tag" is about *managing* tags far more than "bzr branch" is about *managing* branches. "bzr branch" is about one aspect, which is only *creating* a new one. I'm willing to be persuaded, but if we are adding delete, we should add some sort of rename/move, and we should consider if that fits the command. If we feel it does, then we can put them all in there.

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

Perhaps we need to go to rmbranch, rmtag, etc commands in general.
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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

rmbranch exists, so this is fixed.

[Frits Jalvingh (fjalvingh)]

bzr rmbranch does not delete the branch. It leaves:
/home/jal/puzzler-bzr/vp-t-p2053-bvm/
/home/jal/puzzler-bzr/vp-t-p2053-bvm/.bzr
/home/jal/puzzler-bzr/vp-t-p2053-bvm/.bzr/branch-format
/home/jal/puzzler-bzr/vp-t-p2053-bvm/.bzr/branch-lock
/home/jal/puzzler-bzr/vp-t-p2053-bvm/.bzr/README

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

Those files are (oddly enough) not a part of the branch but a part of the control directory, which 'bzr rmbranch' does not remove. It does remove the branch part of a control directory (which usually lives in .bzr/branch).

Cheers, jelmer

Frits Jalvingh <email address hidden> wrote:

>bzr rmbranch does not delete the branch. It leaves:
>/home/jal/puzzler-bzr/vp-t-p2053-bvm/
>/home/jal/puzzler-bzr/vp-t-p2053-bvm/.bzr
>/home/jal/puzzler-bzr/vp-t-p2053-bvm/.bzr/branch-format
>/home/jal/puzzler-bzr/vp-t-p2053-bvm/.bzr/branch-lock
>/home/jal/puzzler-bzr/vp-t-p2053-bvm/.bzr/README
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