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  1. Bug #408097
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 408097

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Zhang Weiwu (zhangweiwu) wrote : Re: Add a "Fork" button on the branch page (like github/bitbucket)

Hi. just to let you know, as a new user who just finished the 5 minutes guide for bzr, I am a bit worried if I fork it locally and push it on the server, the server isn't aware it being a fork and thus treat it as a commit of new code. Having a feature on the web makes it easier for new bzr users start coding with only knowing ci/add/rm/mv/push commands (typical for those who are from subversion). One might ask should every feature be implemented on the web. I think only fork is to be on the web because in other cases the new developer do not worry version system stores the same code twice.

I just created a fork following guide:
almustafa@Orphalese:~/Projects$ bzr branch lp:~zhangweiwu/addressbook/addressbook addressbook-0.8
Branched 10 revision(s).
almustafa@Orphalese:~/Projects$ cd addressbook-0.8/
almustafa@Orphalese:~/Projects/addressbook-0.8$ bzr push lp:~zhangweiwu/addressbook/addressbook-0.8
Created new branch.

and not really sure if the server side knows I did a fork instead of new code.