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## NAME
       archpath - output arch (tla/Bazaar) archive names, with support for branches

## SYNOPSIS
### archpath
       **archpath** _branch_
       **archpath** _branch_**--**_version_

## DESCRIPTION
       **archpath** is intended to be run in an arch (tla or Bazaar) working copy.

       In  its  simplest  usage, **archpath** with no parameters outputs the package name (archive/cate‐
       gory--branch--version) associated with the working copy.

       If a parameter is given, it may either be a branch--version, in which case **archpath** will out‐
       put  a corresponding package name in the current archive and category, or a plain branch name
       (without ‘--"), in which case **archpath** will output a corresponding package name in  the  cur‐
       rent archive and category and with the same version as the current working copy.

       This  is  useful for branching.  For example, if you're using Bazaar and you want to create a
       branch for a new feature, you might use a command like this:

              baz branch $(archpath) $(archpath new-feature)

       Or if you want to tag your current code onto a ‘releases’ branch as version  1.0,  you  might
       use a command like this:

              baz branch $(archpath) $(archpath releases--1.0)

       That's  much  easier  than  using ‘baz tree-version’ to look up the package name and manually
       modifying the result.

## AUTHOR
       **archpath** was written by Colin Watson <<cjwatson@debian.org>>.  Like **archpath**, this manual  page
       is released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.



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