redirected and shared working trees

[Denys Duchier]

John A Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:

> When we were discussing it, I believed we specifically allowed for the
> possibility that a standalone branch could have a checkout made.
> If only because you might publish a standalone branch, which your group
> would then share, and use checkouts.
> So while a standalone branch *might* still have a working tree, you
> could still have a second working tree which references it.

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy at imag.fr> writes:

> This is part of the plans AFAIK. A working tree without a branch is
> usually refered to as a "checkout". repositories are also sometimes
> called "archives" (this should give you keyworks to feed your search
> engine if you want to dig this ML's archives).

Ah... that's what this checkout business is about.  Thanks guys.

One of these days, I'll have an original idea and then you'll all be surprised,
so there!

;-)

--Denys