Comment 3 for bug 249074

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James Westby (james-w) wrote : Re: [Bug 249074] Re: branching with with 0 revisions causes an error

On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 15:25 +0000, Pete Kelly wrote:
> I've just tried bzr pull, and it does indeed work. Seems a little odd
> though, as I said above it would make more sense (to me) to stop you
> branching at all from revision 0
>

I think we want to allow this, so you can do something like

  bzr init bzr+ssh://wherever
  bzr branch bzr+ssh://wherever
  hack
  bzr commit
  bzr push

However, we should handle merge in to an empty branch gracefully,
and probably disallow it.

Thanks,

James