[RFC] New name for 'repositories' - 'baskets'

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Mon Mar 6 00:53:09 GMT 2006


On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 14:18 +0100, David Allouche wrote:

> What I meant is that I wish bzr would not impose arbitrary restrictions
> on what the repository-in-a-standalone branch can do. That I wish it
> would be functionally equivalent to a shared repository.

Its not arbitrary...

We decided at UBZ that:

$ bzr branch $SOMEWHERE dir
$ bzr branch $SOMEWHEREELSE dir/subdir
$ mv dir/subdir otherdir
$ rm -rf dir

should -never- invalidate the content of otherdir.

If a standalone branch acts as a shared repository, that use case will
fail.

Rob


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