Re: vc-bzr bogosities

["Riccardo Murri" <riccardo.murri@gmail.com>]

On 7/24/07, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > Note only isn't that a bzr dir, but I don't even _use_ bzr (though I
> > have a .bar config file from a long time ago, which only has my email
> > address in it).
>
> I guess the above ".bar" was meant to be ".bzr" and is really ~/.bzr, right?
> If so, that explains it: VC walks up the directory tree until it finds
> a ".bzr" subdirectory and considers it to be the root of a BZR tree.
>
> We need to make this determination more selective.  I don't know BZR nearly
> well enough to know what should be done.  Would checking for
> .bzr/branch-format be a good check (i.e. would it always succeed in a real
> BZR workspace and would it normally fail in the ~/.bzr config dir)?
>

That would probably be a workaround, although the only authoritative
check would be to run `cd file-name-directory && bzr root` (but that
slows vc-bzr down a lot).

Riccardo