Comment 11 for bug 408097

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dot dot dot (dotdotdotdeactivated-deactivatedaccount) wrote : Re: [Bug 408097] Re: Add a "Fork" button on the branch page (like github/bitbucket)

Thanks for the tip [?]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:34, Jonathan Lange <email address hidden> wrote:

> "bzr branch lp:foo" to make a local copy
> "bzr push lp:~student-lp-id/foo/branch-name" to push to Launchpad
>
> Agree it would be nice to have a button.
>
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> Title:
> Add a "Fork" button on the branch page (like github/bitbucket)
>
> Status in Launchpad itself:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Both bitbucket and github have extremely useful "Fork" buttons on the
> branches pages.
>
> To register a new branch, instead of doing:
>
> 1) find interesting branch n the site;
> 2) "bzr branch lp:<branch address copied from that page> <my branch name>"
> 3) "bzr push lp:~username/+junk/<my branch name>" or something like
> "lp:~<team name>/<project name>/<my branch name>"
>
> One could simply:
> 1) Find interesting branch n the site;
> 2) Click on "Fork this branch"
> 3) [Maybe] Choose to register as +junk or on a team/project namespace with
> some nice Ajax-y box.
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