init

Purpose:

Make a directory into a versioned branch.

Usage:

bzr init [LOCATION]

Options:

-v, --verbose	Display more information.
--create-prefix
	Create the path leading up to the branch if it does not already exist.
-q, --quiet	Only display errors and warnings.
--append-revisions-only
	Never change revnos or the existing log. Append revisions to it only.
--usage	Show usage message and options.
--no-tree	Create a branch without a working tree.
-h, --help	Show help message.

Branch format:

--format=ARG	Specify a format for this branch. See “help formats”.
--2a	Format for the bzr 2.0 series. Uses group-compress storage. Provides rich roots which are a one-way transition.
--default	Format for the bzr 2.0 series. Uses group-compress storage. Provides rich roots which are a one-way transition.
--development-colo
	The 2a format with experimental support for colocated branches.

–pack-0.92 Pack-based format used in 1.x series. Introduced in

0.92. Interoperates with bzr repositories before 0.92 but cannot be read by bzr < 0.92.

Description:

Use this to create an empty branch, or before importing an existing project.

If there is a repository in a parent directory of the location, then the history of the branch will be stored in the repository. Otherwise init creates a standalone branch which carries its own history in the .bzr directory.

If there is already a branch at the location but it has no working tree, the tree can be populated with ‘bzr checkout’.

Recipe for importing a tree of files:

cd ~/project
bzr init
bzr add .
bzr status
bzr commit -m "imported project"

See also:

branch, checkout, init-repository