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I have the following directory structure:

Documents
----Incoming
----Originals
----Processed
----Working

Originally I thought I only wanted to track Working, so I made a bzr repo in there.

Now I've decided that I actually want to track the whole folder. How do I expand the repository to include the parent directory?

James Polley
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Create a new branch in Documents, temporarily move the Working directory somewhere else, use bzr merge-into to merge it back to Documents.

Lukáš Lalinský
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  • I take it that should read: (1) Move `working` somewhere else temporarily; (2) use `bzr init` to make a new branch in `documents`; (3) `bzr add .` and `bzr commit` to commit the rest of the folders into the branch; (4) then use `bzr merge-into` to merge `working` into `documents – James Polley Jan 09 '10 at 11:14
  • Hrm. I see that `merge-into` is a plugin. I've never looked at the bzr plugins; now it seems as though perhaps I should. – James Polley Jan 09 '10 at 11:17
  • *sigh* it turns out that this doesn't do what I need, because of other requirements I hadn't realised I had at the time - namely, I need to make a lightweight checkout of just the Documents folder. This was the best answer to the problem I thought I had though – James Polley Jan 14 '10 at 09:38
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As far as I know, you don't. You can "work around" it by moving everything in your repo to a newly-created Working directory, then add the other directories, but if that's too ugly for you then you need to create a new repo that has everything you want in it in the right place to begin with.

womble
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