Comment 4 for bug 718723

John Arbash Meinel wrote:
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> On 2/15/2011 12:45 AM, David I wrote:
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>> Martin Pool wrote:
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>>> On 15 February 2011 00:19, David I <email address hidden> wrote:
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>>>> Public bug reported:
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>>>> I'm getting a problem using bzr 2.3.0 with the sequence
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>>>> bzr branch --stacked <patch file>
>>>> bzr merge <patch file>
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>>>> while the same sequence works if I leave out the --stacked.
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> you should be able to:
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> bzr branch --stacked $OTHER_BRANCH target
> cd target
> bzr pull --overwrite <patch_file>
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> The issue is that we cannot stack *on top* of a patch file, but only
> another branch. I can agree that the UI should be cleaned up around this.
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> I don't remember 'bzr branch <patch file>' working before. I wonder if
> it is actually finding the branch in the containing directory, and then
> ignoreing 'patch-file'. So it is, effectively doing:
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> bzr branch --stacked . $TARGET
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> And possibly defaulting the name of the target to the base name of the
> patch file? I don't really know.
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> John
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John,
thanks for the reply. I'm sorry for the confusion, there was a mistake
in my original posting. The stacked branch was actually from a regular
branch - I'd never have imagined doing a branch from a patch file!
Please see my response in the bug trail to Martin's questions. I'll do a
quick check with your suggestion to use pull --overwrite.