04-08-2008
No, it's basically a generalization of if then else if then else if then else, but all branches examine the same variable. In many programming languages, this is a "switch" statement (think railroad switch). Read the documentation for your shell.
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get-branches(1) General Commands Manual get-branches(1)
NAME
get-branches - downloads all branches related to a Launchpad team or person
SYNOPSIS
get-branches [-d directory] [-o branch|checkout] -t team
get-branches team
get-branches --help
DESCRIPTION
get-branches uses the LP API to get a list of branches for a person or team and calls Bazaar to download all branches.
OPTIONS
Listed below are the command line options for get-branches:
-h, --help
Display a help message and exit.
-d, --directory
Download branches to a directory other than the current directory.
-o, --operation
Specifies which Bazaar operation to use when downloading the branches; may be either branch or checkout.
-t, --team
Specifies which Launchpad team/person to download branches from. This option is required.
AUTHORS
get-branches was written by Daniel Holbach <daniel.holbach@ubuntu.com>, and this manual page was written by Jonathan Patrick Davies
<jpds@ubuntu.com>.
Both are released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3.
SEE ALSO
bzr(1)
ubuntu-dev-tools 11 August 2008 get-branches(1)