branch should have a --use-existing flag

[Dan Watkins]

When branching an SVN branch, I often run out of memory. If I'm running the branch in a shared repository, then I can recover the progress to that point without difficulty, but not so if I'm using a standalone branch. This flag should remedy that.

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

Isn't 'bzr pull' the appropriate solution for "I already have a branch and I want to get more revisions into it" ?

[Martin Albisetti (beuno)]

This is a different use case, but if I have a dir, and I want to use it as the branch, well, --use-existing would be neat.

[Matthew Fuller (fullermd)]

> This flag should remedy that.

This used to exist in --basis, but was removed in 0.16 for various
reasons. See e.g. bug 53675.

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[Dan Watkins (oddbloke)]

On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 14:02 +0000, John A Meinel wrote:
> Isn't 'bzr pull' the appropriate solution for "I already have a branch
> and I want to get more revisions into it" ?
The issue here is that bzr (or perhaps bzr-svn, I'm unsure) pulls the
revisions into .bzr/repository before .bzr/branch is created. When the
process is interrupted, as an OOM does, then there isn't a branch to
continue from, and some hackery has to happen in order to use the
existing repository. Doing 'bzr init' followed by a 'bzr pull
<LOCATION>' seems to work, as does moving .bzr/repository into a fresh
shared repo's .bzr/repository. Neither of these is ideal...