Comment 2 for bug 267781

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote : Re: [Bug 267781] Re: bzr branch should support bundles

On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 02:23 +0000, Martin Pool wrote:
> This would certainly be useful when eg wanting to pick up on some work
> posted to bundle buggy.
>
> As a workaround, you can init a branch and then pull into it.
>
> I investigated adding this, similarly to what's done in cmd_pull. It
> could be done by copying a little bit of code that checks first whether
> there's a bundle there, but it might be nice to instead make bundles act
> more like readonly branches to avoid duplication.
There would be more commands that would benefit from making bundles act
more like readonly branches - some that come to mind are "bzr missing",
"bzr log" and "bzr viz". I've actually tried to run those on bundles in
the past, hoping they would work :-)

Cheers,

Jelmer

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