Bound branch implementation

[Nathaniel McCallum]

On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 20:50 -0600, John A Meinel wrote:
> One use case that comes up fairly often is wanting to have a public
> location where people can download your branches, while still having a
> local branch that you can use offline.
> Also, frequently people want to have some sort of centralized
> development, where they have a shared branch that multiple people can
> commit to. In this sort of mode, you have to update your local tree
> before you can commit.
> 
> So, I think I have an implementation which works. It is built off of
> Robert's integration branch, and is available from here:
> http://bzr.arbash-meinel.com/branches/bzr/bound-branch/
> 
> Eventually, we want to put this into bzr core, but first I would like to
> get some feedback. I made sure committing when bound has a decent error
> message, but I'm not sure that I've tracked down all the other
> possibilities.
> 
> My test cases work, indicating the functionality is there, but that
> doesn't mean the user interface is perfect. Also, I believe it will fail
> when bound to a remote tree, since we can't update remote WorkingTrees.
> I don't know if we will support updating remote trees, or just creating
> branches without remote working trees.

Please support this!  I haven't been following much bzr development as
my wife and I just had a baby.  so... what is the problem with updating
remote working trees?

Also, could you give a little demo of how bound branches work?

Nathaniel