08:16 < abentley> Better phrasing: 'what circumstances should cause us to produce a working tree in a repository branch'?

[Wouter van Heyst]

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 06:33:00PM +0100, Denys Duchier wrote:
> Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> writes:

<snip>

> > So here, we're definitely differing on what constitutes a command.  I'd
> > claim that creating an empty repository is a unique command, whether
> > it's phrased as "bzr create-repository" or "bzr create --repository".
> 
> I think you are influenced in this by your perspective as an implementor.
> Consider the act of "reading": there are vast differences in the act of reading
> a novel and that of reading a comic book, but there is also an essential
> commonality of enterprise.  Giving them different names would probably not be
> that helpful (at least, not to the general public).

Likewise I create a sandwich and a model of heat conduction.
In my mind, a repository and a branch do different things, both being
under create feels unnatural.
 
Wouter van Heyst