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Reputation: 89

BZR checkout from remote to local

I have a directory named "SAMPLE" for version control located in the remote server, How can I checkout "SAMPLE" to a specific directory in my local computer?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1368

Answers (1)

Reimer Behrends
Reimer Behrends

Reputation: 8730

It depends on how you access files on your remote server (ftp, sftp, ssh, http, etc.).

Generally, you would use either bzr branch or bzr checkout to get a copy. bzr branch will allow you to perform local commits and only push them to the remote server when you're satisfied, while bzr checkout will directly commit to the remote server. You can use bzr unbind and bzr bind to convert between checkouts and branches.

For example, assuming that you have the SAMPLE directory on the remote server in your home directory, that the server is named server.com, and use sftp to access it, you can use one of:

bzr branch sftp://server.com/~/SAMPLE MYSAMPLE
bzr checkout sftp://server.com/~/SAMPLE MYSAMPLE

to obtain a local copy in the MYSAMPLE subdirectory of your current directory (obviously, you can specify a different directory name for the destination, too.

If you don't use sftp, you can consult bzr help urlspec to find out what other prefixes are available.

If the file isn't in your home directory, but uses an absolute path, you will have to insert that instead, as in the following examples:

bzr branch sftp://server.com/path/to/SAMPLE MYSAMPLE
bzr checkout sftp://server.com/path/to/SAMPLE MYSAMPLE
bzr branch http://server.com/path/to/SAMPLE MYSAMPLE
bzr checkout http://server.com/path/to/SAMPLE MYSAMPLE

If you need more information about the difference between the branch and checkout commands, bzr help branch and bzr help checkout should tell you what you need.

Upvotes: 1

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