Comment 2 for bug 190116

Here's a real example that happened recently.

Jelmer wanted to move maintenance of bzr-gtk from ~bzr to the ~bzr-gtk team.

He decided to overwrite the existing branch with a branch containing only a README giving the new location.

That's not great, but having the old branch just apparently disappear is arguably worse.

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bzr/bzr-gtk/trunk/