Comment 9 for bug 481748

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

On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:23:19 +0100, James Westby <email address hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:34:53 -0000, Aaron Bentley <email address hidden> wrote:
> > You can already specify a url as part of a revspec, e.g. "bzr branch -r
> > 10:lp:bzrtools bzr.dev bzt" branches from bzrtools, not bzr.dev.
> > Couldn't you use that syntax in bzr-builder?
>
> Kind of ugly, but yes, it would be possible in theory. Parsing
> 10:lp:bzrtools and distinguishing fromm lp:bzrtools wouldn't be easy,
> but I imagine it's easy to distinguish using bzr.

Plus it doesn't fit my desire to be able to copy the URL from a recipe
and prepend "bzr branch" to it to get that branch and tree that the
recipe will use.

Thanks,

James