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  • Committer: Canonical.com Patch Queue Manager
  • Date: 2010-01-15 04:49:48 UTC
  • mfrom: (3984.5.22 switch-r-183559)
  • Revision ID: pqm@pqm.ubuntu.com-20100115044948-yxz5m3vchxapbq22
(andrew) Add --revision option to 'bzr switch'. (#184559)

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The Transport API in bzrlib provides URL based access to network resources.
 
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   >>> import os
 
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   >>> import sys
 
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   >>> from bzrlib.osutils import getcwd, dirname
 
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   >>> from bzrlib.urlutils import local_path_from_url
 
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   >>> import bzrlib.transport as transport
 
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   >>> if sys.platform == 'win32':
 
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   ...     root = transport.get_transport('file:///C:/')
 
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   ... else:
 
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   ...     root = transport.get_transport('file:///')
 
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   >>>
 
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Each Transport instance represents a single logical directory.
 
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   >>> dir = transport.get_transport(".")
 
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   >>> local_path_from_url(dir.base) == getcwd() + '/'
 
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   True
 
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You can change directories via the clone method:
 
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   >>> parent = dir.clone('..')
 
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   >>> local_path_from_url(parent.base) == (dirname(getcwd()).rstrip('/') + '/')
 
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   True