tracking of "branch nicknames"

[Bill Barry]

Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> while working with bzr i noticed that it records the last path component
> of the current workdir as "branch nick".
>
> I think this would be nice optional addition as it helps tracking
> directory based feature branches for later analysis.
>
> Should i provide a patch or extension to add this as opt-in (or even
> default) ?
>
> regards Ronny
>   
It looks like 'bzr nick' works just like 'hg branch'.
If so, you could create an extension which wrapped clone and init (and 
maybe qclone) to call hg branch after getting the repository.