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Prevent push to root of a repository?

Asked by Tom Dickson

I have a repository setup on an SSH server as so:

bzr init-repo code
cd code
bzr init trunk

And I then get something that looks like this:

code
code/trunk
code/branch

etc.

However, I sometimes accidentally push code/trunk to code itself, which I don't want to do. Is there a way to make sure you can't push to the root of a repository, but still be able to update and use the branches?

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#1

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Alexander Belchenko (bialix) said : 		#2

There is no way to prevent push into root of shared repo.

As workaround you can create guard branch at the root of shared repo, like that:

cd repo
bzr init .
bzr commit --unchanged -m "guard branch: don't push into the root of this shared repository"

And next time when you'll try to push into root of shared repo you'll get ""these branches diverged error".

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