Re: Emacs-23 release branch

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:44:43 +0100
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> Are there any bzr commands to show what revision on the (remote) trunk
> >> was the parent of this branch?
> >
> > In case it wasn't clear, I meant _without_ checking out the branch.
> 
> I think your best bet is 
> 
> bzr missing --mine-only sftp://bzr.sv.gnu.org/srv/bzr/emacs/emacs-23

Doesn't seem to work:

  address@hidden:~/bzr/emacs/trunk$ bzr missing --mine-only 
sftp://address@hidden/srv/bzr/emacs/emacs-23
  This branch is up to date.

Can't "bzr log" help here?  It should show branches, right?

> However, as we are using the dumb http/sftp server, there is no
> guarantee that the amount of data needed for the operation above is
> significantly less than the data needed for checking out the emacs-23
> branch.

I don't want to check-out every branch whose branch point I'd like to
know.