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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make gcapatch work for all bk transports
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Kumar Gala wrote:

> I didn't even think if your case.  How about extracting out the transport
> from 'bk parent -p' as a middle ground.  I dont think this will help your
> case.  If not, we can leave the script as is.

It would actually be nice if bk supported a method to get the "root" 
parent path from any clone; this obviously won't work, though, if the 
clone is disconnected (on a laptop with no link, or something).