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Purpose:

Create a new branch that is a copy of an existing branch.

Usage:

bzr branch FROM_LOCATION [TO_LOCATION]

Options:
–use-existing-dir
 

By default branch will fail if the target directory exists, but does not already have a control directory. This flag will allow branch to proceed.

–stacked

Create a stacked branch referring to the source branch. The new branch will depend on the availability of the source branch for all operations.

-v, –verbose

Display more information.

–standalone

Do not use a shared repository, even if available.

–bind

Bind new branch to from location.

-h, –help

Show help message.

-q, –quiet

Only display errors and warnings.

–switch

Switch the checkout in the current directory to the new branch.

–hardlink

Hard-link working tree files where possible.

–usage

Show usage message and options.

–no-tree

Create a branch without a working-tree.

-r ARG, –revision=ARG
 

See “help revisionspec” for details.

Description:

If the TO_LOCATION is omitted, the last component of the FROM_LOCATION will be used. In other words, “branch ../foo/bar” will attempt to create ./bar. If the FROM_LOCATION has no / or path separator embedded, the TO_LOCATION is derived from the FROM_LOCATION by stripping a leading scheme or drive identifier, if any. For example, “branch lp:foo-bar” will attempt to create ./foo-bar.

To retrieve the branch as of a particular revision, supply the –revision parameter, as in “branch foo/bar -r 5”.

Aliases:

get, clone

See also:

:doc:`checkout <checkout-help>`

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