new user - no archive?

[Martin Pool]

On 10 Jul 2005, Jesper Olsen <jesper.olsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just installed bazaar-ng, and did the tutorial:
> http://bazaar-ng.org/tutorial.html
> 
> In CVS/Subversion you would start a project by creating an archive in a remote
> location, which several developers would commit/update against.
> 
> With bzr it seems the archive is stored with the working copy (the .bzr
> subdirectory)?
> Is that right?

That's right.  We plan to also have an option to store the archive
separate from the working copy to allow more traditional collaboration,
but this is not done yet.

> How does this work in a project - is it intended that the new project archive
> is immediately
> branched by developers, and then merged periodically?
> In fact this would be so even if there is only one developer (for
> backup)?

That's right.

> The tutorial does not explain this - is it part of the bazaar heritage
> (rather than cvs/subversion), and maybe explained elsewhere?

I haven't updated the tutorial since this was done; I'll try to do that soon.

-- 
Martin