Comment 5 for bug 380871

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 380871] Re: Allow imports of non-master branches when pulling from git repositories

On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 03:30 +0000, Tim Penhey wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:46:46 Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > fwiw "bzr git-import" can import these other branches, but there's no
> > way to do so using the Bazaar API.
>
> What is missing in the Bazaar API?

The bzr command line has no way to talk about groups of branches; the
underlying API can query and sync multiple branches *one at a time*.

So jelmer may mean 'no efficient way' or 'no way to ask for this from
the command line'.

See the multi-{push,pull} plugins that have been written for examples.

-Rob