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first draft of a 2.0 Upgrade Guide

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Tips and tricks

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Finding obsolete branches

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If you use feature branching for developing each fix

and enhancement separately, you may have several old

branches that are no longer required. In many cases,

the relevant changes may now be merged into trunk.

In other cases, a branch may be obsolete thanks to

another change made by yourself or others.

When checking for an obsolete branch, there are two

things in particular to confirm:

1. The working tree has no in-progress changes.

2. Any locally committed revisions have been merged

to the parent branch.

After changing into the root of a branch, the commands

to check these things respectively are::

bzr status

bzr missing --mine-only

If your branches are stored in a shared repository locally,

you may find the *Local Changes* tab in Bazaar Explorer's

repository view helpful here as it shows a summary of

these things for each branch as you select it.