As a new user of Bazaar, I would have expected a message that there is no branch there. If not for the fact that I had a mirror branch in another folder, I would have lost the complete source branch. We did later determine that we could recover it from the dead head in the shared repository, but the tags are not recovered using this approach, so some critical information could still be lost. In general, I think it should be made difficult to accidentally remove a branch, or at least make this side effect more apparent in the documentation. Thanks for your quick response.
As a new user of Bazaar, I would have expected a message that there is no branch there. If not for the fact that I had a mirror branch in another folder, I would have lost the complete source branch. We did later determine that we could recover it from the dead head in the shared repository, but the tags are not recovered using this approach, so some critical information could still be lost. In general, I think it should be made difficult to accidentally remove a branch, or at least make this side effect more apparent in the documentation. Thanks for your quick response.