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James Westby (james-w) wrote : Re: [Bug 481748] [NEW] revspecs in recipes should be part of the URL

On Fri Nov 13 06:18:45 UTC 2009 Andrew Bennetts wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> The current format has an optional revspec on the end of a line. It
> would be nicer if it were part of the URL, so that we can cleanly have
> other optional fields there instead.
>
> Specifically,
> - the branch URL could have ;revno=1234 or similar as a suffix, and
> - this makes space for a featture Robert and I are working on (merging part
> of a tree from another branch).

I would be happy to do this, and I think it was originally discussed as
a possibility. However, it would be great (and perhaps a blocker on doing
this) if bzr understood the URIs, not just bzr-builder.

What I mean is, if we pick ...;revno=1234 then

  bzr branch ....;revno=1234

should do the right thing.

Thanks,

James