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ARCHPATH(1)                            General Commands Manual                           ARCHPATH(1)

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 AT debian.org>.  Like archpath, this manual page
       is released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.

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