Comment 5 for bug 481748

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 481748] Re: revspecs in recipes should be part of the URL

On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 09:22 +0000, James Westby wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 02:07:09 -0000, Robert Collins <email address hidden> wrote:
> > @james what functionality do you need in bzr?
>
> Basically being able to
>
> bzr branch <URI from recipe>
>
> so that you don't have to do a transformation from what you know works
> for recipes and what you know works from bzr.
>
> I'd also prefer not to have the code to interpret the URI to branch +
> revid in bzr-builder so that it can grow more easily to accommodate
> other needs.

Hmm. But bzr-builder doesn't use the command line interface to bzr
anyway; and this is arguably a UI glue issue; so I don't actually agree
bzr needs or should change to permit this.

-Rob